Animal Consumption Associated with Higher Intimate Partner Aggression

Taft, Casey T.; Hamilton, Evelyn G.; Leviyah, Xenia; Gnall, Katherine E.; Park, Crystal L.

doi:10.1007/s10896-023-00556-0

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“…The consumption of flavor enhancers such as MSG might also influence behavior depending on the specific food to which it is added, such as meat. It is worth noting that emerging human research has linked higher levels of meat consumption with increased aggression toward an intimate partner (Taft et al 2023). In animal studies, a high-fat, high-chicken-meat diet is associated with disturbances to the gut microbiota (Shi et al 2020); if this research is replicated and extended, researchers should query the types of meat (highly processed, inclusive of dietary excitotoxins?…”

Section: Microbiome and The Legalomementioning

confidence: 99%

Neurolaw: Revisiting Huberty v. McDonald’s through the Lens of Nutritional Criminology and Food Crime

Logan,

Nicholson,

Schoenthaler

et al. 2024

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Recent studies have illuminated the potential harms associated with ultra-processed foods, including poor mental health, aggression, and antisocial behavior. At the same time, the human gut microbiome has emerged as an important contributor to cognition and behavior, disrupting concepts of the biopsychosocial ‘self’ and raising questions related to free will. Since the microbiome is undeniably connected to dietary patterns and components, the topics of nutrition and microbes are of heightened interest to neuroscience and psychiatry. Research spanning epidemiology, mechanistic bench science, and human intervention trials has brought legitimacy to nutritional criminology and the idea that nutrition is of relevance to the criminal justice system. The individual and community-level relationships between nutrition and behavior are also salient to torts and the relatively new field of food crime—that which examines the vast harms, including grand-scale non-communicable diseases and behavioral outcomes, caused by the manufacturers, distributors, and marketers of ultra-processed food products. Here in this essay, we will synthesize various strands of research, reflecting this emergent science, using a notable case that straddled both neurolaw and food crime, Huberty v. McDonald’s (1987). It is our contention that the legalome—microbiome and omics science applied in neurolaw and forensics—will play an increasing role in 21st-century courtroom discourse, policy, and decision-making.

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Section: Microbiome and The Legalomementioning

confidence: 99%

Neurolaw: Revisiting Huberty v. McDonald’s through the Lens of Nutritional Criminology and Food Crime

Logan,

Nicholson,

Schoenthaler

et al. 2024

Laws

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“…Recent studies have identified associations between meat consumption and aggression (Sachdeva et al, 2018;Taft et al, 2023). On the other hand, studies have shown that concern for and empathy towards animals is positively associated with concern for and empathy towards humans (see Eleonora, 2017).…”

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Her Parasites: A poetic ecospiritual perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic and nature's intelligence

Kolandai

2024

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In this transdisciplinary perspective, I present my initial ecospiritual thinking about the COVID-19 pandemic in a poem, titled Her Parasites. I identify with other thinkers â€“ both those in science and not â€“ who articulated ecophilosophical musings about the pandemic in various ways, some of whom were met with mockery and censure. In the hope that it will inspire openness and a sense of curiosity, I draw on metaphysical insights from Vedic treatises and the literature on environmental decline, zoonotic epidemiology, health science, animal agriculture, animal ethics, and animal sentience to explain my poemâ€™s philosophical and ecological framework. I focus on the scientific knowledge of epidemics caused by viruses that transcend species boundaries, why cross-species hopping occurs, and the nature (and incredible intelligence) of such viruses. I invite readers to consider ancient Vedic principles that articulate the rationale for living harmoniously with other sentient beings and entities. Considering the unseen metaphysical association between the pandemic and animal cruelty explained through the Vedic laws of KarmÄ, I present the possibility that one of the lessons Mother Earth might have wanted the Homo sapiens species to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic is its need to alter its diet. I end with a discussion on the possibility and value of this change. The downplaying or denial of animal sentience (strategies to overcome the psychological discomfort of incongruence between loving animals and eating them, as described in social psychology), is a barrier to this change. However, observed through a Vedic lens, this cognitive dissonance suggests that the Homo sapiens species is innately humane, the realisation of which might hold the key to this dietary change.

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Animal Consumption Associated with Higher Intimate Partner Aggression

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Neurolaw: Revisiting Huberty v. McDonald’s through the Lens of Nutritional Criminology and Food Crime

Neurolaw: Revisiting Huberty v. McDonald’s through the Lens of Nutritional Criminology and Food Crime

Her Parasites: A poetic ecospiritual perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic and nature's intelligence

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