Meat or mitigation? That's the question: Storylines in the Norwegian agricultural policy discourse on meat reduction

Larsson, Jessica; Vik, Jostein

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103016

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“…Under these conditions, a balanced diet with a higher consumption of fish, starchy vegetables, and some consumption of meat and dairy products from grass-fed ruminants may be recommended. In Norway, the agricultural sector is considered to be crucial for enhancing food production, ensuring self-sufficiency, and fostering value creation [ 6 ]. Key stakeholders in the agri-food industry advocate for reducing greenhouse gas emissions through technological advancements rather than cutting meat production [ 6 ].…”

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“…In Norway, the agricultural sector is considered to be crucial for enhancing food production, ensuring self-sufficiency, and fostering value creation [ 6 ]. Key stakeholders in the agri-food industry advocate for reducing greenhouse gas emissions through technological advancements rather than cutting meat production [ 6 ]. Moreover, for many consumers a sustainable and healthy diet also includes dimensions related to the use of pesticides and antibiotics, novel production technologies, and food culture.…”

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A sustainable and healthy diet: Personality, motives, and sociodemographics

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A sustainable and healthy diet: Personality, motives, and sociodemographics

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Marginality in the berry fields: hierarchical ordering of food and agrarian systems in Norway

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2024

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Although being essential to sustaining food production, migrant workers continuously find themselves at the bottom of the social and power hierarchy in food and agrarian systems around the world. Effects and origins of hierarchical ordering in food and agrarian systems increasingly gather public, political, and academic attention, however, how it matters for these systems remains little understood. As such, this paper aims to understand how hierarchical ordering shapes migrant worker marginality and links it to the contemporary formations of food and agrarian systems. To do so, this paper explores engaged and embodied dimensions of disadvantaged migrant worker realities. This is done by drawing on research conducted in Norway, mainly consisting of interviews with migrant agri-food worker and farmers, as well as ethnographic data from Norwegian berry farms and supporting document analysis. The analysis reveals a complex picture of the power and reach of hierarchical ordering as it directly and indirectly impacts migrant workers in the Norwegian berry fields, as well as ideas around narrow divisions in food and agrarian systems and society more broadly that are implicated in naturalizing and internalizing such ordering. Following these insights, the paper proposes a theorization of food and agrarian systems as hierarchical projects– structures that find their foundations in patterned ordering that arranges and regularizes power hierarchies on the count of differences.

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Ruminant livestock and climate change: critical discourse moments in mainstream and farming sector news media

Simmonds,

Maye,

Ingram

2024

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There is ongoing contestation around greenhouse gas emissions from ruminant livestock and how society should respond. Media discourses play a key role in agenda setting for the general public and policymakers, and may contribute to polarisation. This paper examines how UK news media portrayed ruminant livestock’s impact on climate change between 2016 and 2021. The analysis addresses a gap in the literature by comparing discourses in national and farming sector newspapers using a qualitative approach. Four national and two farming sector news outlets were searched for articles published between 2016 and 2021. A corpus of 996 relevant articles was assembled, from which 154 were selected for in-depth examination using Critical Discourse Analysis. Four ‘Critical Discourse Moments’ (CDMs), each signifying a discursive shift in the debate, were identified over the 6-year studied period: 1) Low salience, diverging discourses, 2) We must eat far less meat, 3) Fighting the anti-meat agenda, and 4) Policy (in)action at COP26. There was a large increase in the number of published articles from January 2019 onward, partly associated with publication of the EAT/Lancet Commission report. CDM 2 (We must eat far less meat) occurred mainly in the national media, while CDM 3 (Fighting the anti-meat agenda) occurred mainly in the farming media. Our findings reveal both opinion polarisation and intergroup polarisation between national and farming sector media, and low engagement with food system power imbalances. Addressing polarisation will be important to enhance capacity for collective decision-making regarding methane emissions from ruminant livestock.

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Meat or mitigation? That's the question: Storylines in the Norwegian agricultural policy discourse on meat reduction

Cited by 5 publications

References 54 publications

A sustainable and healthy diet: Personality, motives, and sociodemographics

A sustainable and healthy diet: Personality, motives, and sociodemographics

Marginality in the berry fields: hierarchical ordering of food and agrarian systems in Norway

Ruminant livestock and climate change: critical discourse moments in mainstream and farming sector news media

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