Manufacturing ignorance: think tanks, climate change and the animal-based diet
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- dc.contributor.author Almiron, Núria, 1967-
- dc.contributor.author Rodrigo Alsina, Miquel, 1955-
- dc.contributor.author Moreno, Jose A.
- dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-15T07:33:51Z
- dc.date.available 2021-11-15T07:33:51Z
- dc.date.issued 2021
- dc.description.abstract Despite the evidence concerning the substantial greenhouse gases emissions resulting from animal-based food production, climate policies and institutions around the world have barely made an issue of this link until very recently. To better understand this lack of attention, we focus on the discursive role of think tanks as prominent but under researched actors attempting to shape public policy. This contribution examines whether European think tanks have discussed animal-based diets regarding climate change policies and mitigation actions. We conduct a frame analysis study of 110 European think tanks, encoding all their available online output in English related to the link between global heating and animal-based food. We conclude that European think tanks have contributed to a manufacturing of ignorance regarding the impact our dietary choices have on the climate. Ideological reasons related to economic, anthropocentric and patriarchal worldviews explain this role.
- dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the Spanish State Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación, AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under grant CSO2016-78421-R; and by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under Grant FPU18/04207.
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- dc.identifier.citation Almiron N, Rodrigo-Alsina M, Moreno JA. Manufacturing ignorance: think tanks, climate change and the animal-based diet. Env Polit. 2021; 9 Jun 2021. 22 p. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2021.1933842
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1933842
- dc.identifier.issn 0964-4016
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/48977
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
- dc.relation.ispartof Environmental politics. 2021; 9 Jun 2021. 22 p.
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CSO2016-78421-R
- dc.rights © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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- dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- dc.subject.keyword Think tanks
- dc.subject.keyword climate change
- dc.subject.keyword animal-based diet
- dc.subject.keyword ideological denial
- dc.subject.keyword ignorance
- dc.subject.keyword speciesism
- dc.title Manufacturing ignorance: think tanks, climate change and the animal-based diet
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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