Why environmentalists eat meat

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• dc.contributor.author Scott, Evon
• dc.contributor.author Kallis, Giorgos
• dc.contributor.author Zografos, Christos
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-01-30T07:33:06Z
• dc.date.available 2023-01-30T07:33:06Z
• dc.date.issued 2019
• dc.description.abstract Why do people who care about the environment adopt behaviours that are not consistent with their beliefs? Previous studies approach this as a case of cognitive dissonance, researchers looking into the strategies through which people reduce gaps between their attitudes and their behaviours. Here we start from the premise that there is no dissonance, and that people have consistent reasons of why they are doing what they are doing. The research task is then to shed light on these reasons. Using Q-methodology, a mixed quantitative-qualitative approach, we interviewed 42 environmentally-minded researchers asking them why they eat meat. Our interviewees were aware of and cared about the environmental and ethical impacts of meat eating, but reasoned that they eat meat because either technological, or political changes are more important than what they personally do, because of doubts about the impact of personal action in a complex world, or simply because they lack the determination to stop eating meat. Our analysis suggests that policies and messages that try to educate or guilt meat-eaters are unlikely to work with those well aware of the impacts of their actions.
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• dc.identifier.citation Scott E, Kallis G, Zografos C. Why environmentalists eat meat. PLoS ONE. 2019 Jul 11;14(7):e0219607. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219607
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219607
• dc.identifier.issn 1932-6203
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55460
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• dc.relation.ispartof PLoS ONE. 2019 Jul 11;14(7):e0219607
• dc.rights © 2019 Scott et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.other Ecologistes
• dc.subject.other Medi ambient
• dc.subject.other Carn
• dc.subject.other Carnívors
• dc.subject.other Nutrició -- Ensenyament
• dc.title Why environmentalists eat meat
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion