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Accepted Paper:

Bounding moralities of meat: contested discourses of wallaby production and consumption  
Catie Gressier (University of Western Australia)

Paper short abstract:

With a focus on Tasmania’s wallaby industry, this paper explores the moral valences of wild meat production and consumption. A shift in moral justifications for meat eating is traced from that of animal rights, towards environmental sustainability.

Paper long abstract:

The moral dimensions of meat consumption have long been debated, with animal suffering the primary cause of ethical unease. In recent years, however, advocates of wild meat eating have foregrounded the moral prism of environmentalism in justifying their consumption practices. They posit that the lesser environmental impact of native Macropods, and the free and natural existence such animals lead prior to being harvested, renders them a morally superior meat choice to introduced, farmed livestock. Such claims are seen as unconvincing by animal right's activists, however, who condemn the anthropocentrism of meat eating generally, and the construction of our native species as pests or resources specifically, while critiquing that which they see as the inherently disorderly and cruel nature of hunting practices. This paper explores the moral valences of wild meat production and consumption, with a focus on Tasmania's burgeoning wallaby industry.

Panel Land03
Moral economies of food and agriculture
  Session 1