Vegetarian Utopias: Visions of dietary patterns in future societies and support for social change

Judge, Madeline; Wilson, Marc

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2015.07.005

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“…It seemed that omnivore participants’ attitudes toward meat and their own meat-eating behaviors played an important role in affecting their evaluations of vegetarian groups, especially of vegans. For most people, vegetarianism has been viewed as a healthy dietary option, but veganism may still be associated with restriction, deficiency, and extremism (Judge and Wilson, 2015), which may cause vegans to be categorized as a separate group. Furthermore, most people have little knowledge about veganism.…”

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Underlying Differences Between Chinese Omnivores and Vegetarians in the Evaluations of Different Dietary Groups

Tian

Zheng

2019

Front. Psychol.

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Drawing upon self-categorization theory, the present research investigated the attitudes of omnivores and vegetarians toward five dietary groups, including omnivores, conscientious omnivores, semi-vegetarians, vegetarians, and vegans. When they had high (vs. low) meat rationalization, omnivore participants had fewer negative attitudes toward and more positive evaluations of the omnivore groups but more negative attitudes toward and fewer positive evaluations of the vegetarian groups. Vegetarian participants had the most negative attitudes toward the omnivore group, followed by the conscientious omnivore group, the semi-vegetarian group, the vegetarian group, and the vegan group; the vegetarian participants with high meat rationalization (vs. those with low meat rationalization) had more positive evaluations of the omnivore groups. Such findings suggested that high levels of meat-eating rationalization predicted more favorable attitudes toward omnivores among both omnivore and vegetarian participants.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Underlying Differences Between Chinese Omnivores and Vegetarians in the Evaluations of Different Dietary Groups

Tian

Zheng

2019

Front. Psychol.

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“…Notwithstanding observed increases in the levels of vegetarianism in developed countries (Beverland, 2014) and the renewed importance that consumers attach to health and ethical factors in their diets (Wirsenius et al, 2010), consumer perceptions of future dietary trends suggest that shifts to vegetarianism and veganism are distant and unlikely (Judge and Wilson, 2015). Further, demand for protein-rich legumes is projected to decline across the European Union (Bodirsky, personal communication).…”

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Drivers, impacts, and policy options to address land use changes at multiple scales : implications of food production, rural livelihoods, and ecosystem conservation

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I would further like to highlight the importance of the two European Commission funded projects within which I have been fortunate to participate. The projects ROBIN and PROTEIN2FOOD provided not only funding (2014-2016), but also much inspiration and support for this thesis. Exposure to international research groups, working on cutting edge methodologies and research fields offered fertile mediums within which to develop this investigation. From the ROBIN project, I would like to thank Dr Terry Parr (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK) for his support, Dr Marisol Toledo (Instituto Boliviano de Investigación iii Forestal, Bolivia) for her assistance in the development of the fieldwork used in this research, and to all researchers of the project who contributed. I must also thank the people of the Provincia de Guarayos (Bolivia), some of the most hospitable and welcoming people I have met. Further contributions of stakeholders to this work have been important and I must recognise the participation of local stakeholders in workshops performed in Santa Cruz (Bolivia), Jalisco (Mexico), and Pará (Brazil). From the PROTEIN2FOOD project, I want to thank Dr Sven-Erik Jacobsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) for his inputs and suggestions concerning the impacts of climate change on protein-rich crops across Europe, Andreas Detzel (IFEU, Germany) for his feedback and ideas on the trend analysis, to all researchers who provided comments and recommendations, and to the stakeholders of the two workshops performed within the project in Caserta (Italy) and Freising (Germany). During the development of this research I was extremely fortunate to participate in a summer school for doctoral students hosted by IRI-THESys (Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems), Humboldt University (Berlin). The focus on human-environment systems and participatory methods for co-production and co-producing helped me to envisage and develop a more holistic perspective for academic research, readily applied in this doctoral investigation. In particular, I must thank Professors Tobias Krüger and Jörg Niewöhner for their insightful and thought provoking approach. I want to thank the members of my pre-doctoral thesis defence committee Professors Ana Tarquis Alfonso, Carlos Gregorio Hernández Díaz-Ambrona, and Irene Blanco. Their invaluable comments improved this document, its focus, and approach greatly. I must further voice my thanks to the institutional support provided by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, specifically the School of Agricultural, Food, and Biosystems Engineering, particularly the Department of Agricultural Economics, Statistics, and Business Management and the Research Centre for the Management of Agricultural and Environmental Risks (CEIGRAM). These centres have nurtured me over the past 4 years and have offered me an inspiring research environment within which to develop this work. In particular, I must thank the heads of both entities during this time, Professors Isabel Bardaji Azcárat...

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“…Separate groups of researchers have found that individuals report higher levels of motivation to support changes to society when such changes are visualized as bringing about a society in which individuals show warmth and are collectively more benEvol. ent [122][123][124].…”

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Spaceship Earth Revisited: The Co-Benefits of Overcoming Biological Extinction of Experience at the Level of Person, Place and Planet

Prescott

Bland²

2020

IJERPH

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Extensive research underscores that we interpret the world through metaphors; moreover, common metaphors are a useful means to enhance the pursuit of personal and collective goals. In the context of planetary health—defined as the interdependent vitality of all natural and anthropogenic ecosystems (social, political and otherwise)—one enduring metaphor can be found in the concept of “Spaceship Earth”. Although not without criticism, the term “Spaceship Earth” has been useful to highlight both resource limitations and the beauty and fragility of delicate ecosystems that sustain life. Rene Dubos, who helped popularize the term, underscored the need for an exposome perspective, one that examines the total accumulated environmental exposures (both detrimental and beneficial) that predict the biological responses of the “total organism to the total environment” over time. In other words, how large-scale environmental changes affect us all personally, albeit in individualized ways. This commentary focuses the ways in which microbes, as an essential part of all ecosystems, provide a vital link between personal and planetary systems, and mediate the biopsychosocial aspects of our individualized experience—and thus health—over our life course journey. A more fine-grained understanding of these dynamics and our power to change them, personally and collectively, lies at the core of restoring “ecosystems balance” for person, place and planet. In particular, restoring human connectedness to the natural world, sense of community and shared purpose must occur in tandem with technological solutions, and will enhance individual empowerment for personal well-being, as well as our collective potential to overcome our grand challenges. Such knowledge can help shape the use of metaphor and re-imagine solutions and novel ways for restoration or rewilding of ecosystems, and the values, behaviors and attitudes to light the path toward exiting the Anthropocene.

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Vegetarian Utopias: Visions of dietary patterns in future societies and support for social change

Cited by 26 publications

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Underlying Differences Between Chinese Omnivores and Vegetarians in the Evaluations of Different Dietary Groups

Underlying Differences Between Chinese Omnivores and Vegetarians in the Evaluations of Different Dietary Groups

Drivers, impacts, and policy options to address land use changes at multiple scales : implications of food production, rural livelihoods, and ecosystem conservation

Spaceship Earth Revisited: The Co-Benefits of Overcoming Biological Extinction of Experience at the Level of Person, Place and Planet

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