Almiron, Núria, 1967-Rodrigo Alsina, Miquel, 1955-Moreno, Jose A.2021-11-152021-11-152021Almiron 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: 10.1080/09644016.2021.19338420964-4016http://hdl.handle.net/10230/48977Despite 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.application/pdfeng© 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.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1933842Think tanksclimate changeanimal-based dietideological denialignorancespeciesisminfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess