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Aesthetics of Nutrition, Ethics of Animality: the Packaging of Vegan and Vegetarian Products in the Italian Organised Distribution Market
2018
The topic of this paper concerns the packaging of vegan and vegetarian products in the Italian organised distribution market. Large-scale organised distribution and vegetarianism's choice of packaging is related to current dietary trends which, as is often the case with eating choices and habits, intertwine as they massively spread. Which are the visual and verbal strategies that are adopted to give meaning, in the Italian culinary landscape, to vegan and vegetarian foods sold through large-scale distribution? The aim is to outline, through the methodology of Semiotics, the sensorial mechanisms and cultural grids that shape this food universe, and the way it interacts with other categories …
Dietary Conversions and Forms of Life
2019
This paper regards the emergence of forms of life in the field of food and dietary choices. It aims at connecting meat-free diets with the notion of form of life, especially focussing on the moment of “conversion” from an omnivourous diet to vegetarianism or veganism. The semiotic mechanisms of transitions between forms of life connected to dietary regimens will be highlighted. How does the conversion happen? Like in spiritual and religious discourses, the conversion is often a striking event, a punctual episode in the subject’s life, affecting particularly his/her pathemic and sensorial spheres. In other cases, conversions imply complex and slow processes, affecting pragmatic and cognitive…
Ecopedagogia e nonviolenza nell’era planetaria. La scelta vegetariana
2016
Vegetarianism is not a forced choice nor an ideology, but it can be interpreted as a possible way of life and as an educational option. It is closely connected with a nonviolent modus vivendi which implies the choice not to kill humans and animals. It is a choice that, along the history, has been associated with a path of spiritual education. Vegetarianism can be seen, following the lesson of the Masters of nonviolence, as an important step for an integral education that promotes better human relationships and interconnections among all creatures that inhabit the planet.
Altri cibi. Il packaging degli alimenti veg
2017
Il tema di questo contributo riguarda il packaging dei prodotti vegani e vegetariani nel mercato italiano della distribuzione organizzata. La scelta degli ambiti del packaging della gdo e del vegetarianismo ha a che fare con le attuali tendenze dietetiche che, come spesso accade con le scelte e le mode alimentari, mentre si diffondono massivamente si intrecciano tra di loro. Se, infatti, in linea di principio l’astensione dal mangiare carne è il passaggio giusto e inevitabile per portare avanti coerentemente gli interessi degli esseri animali, ed è dunque espressione di una presa di posizione etico-politica animalista, è vero che cibi vegani e vegetariani sempre più spesso entrano a far par…
L'anima degli animali. Aristotele, frammenti stoici, Plutarco, Porfirio
2015
E' lecito maltrattare gli animali? E mangiarli? Molto del dibattito odierno sulla natura e sui diritti degli animali ha avuto prodromi antichi, anche se con categorie diverse dalle nostre. Il libro è una selezione di testi chiave sul tema, ritradotti per l'occasione e accompagnati da un commento storico-filologico, aprendo suggestive connessioni con la modernità. Il volume raccoglie l'ottavo e il nono libro della Historia animalium di Aristotele, i frammenti degli stoici sugli animali, i tre trattati di Plutarco sul vegetarianismo e sulla "questione animale" (il De esu carnium, il Bruta animalia ratione uti e il De sollertia animalium) e il De abstinentia di Porfirio
To Eat or Not to Eat? A Short Path from Vegetarianism to Cannibalism
2018
Subjective reasoning and chemical composition are not the sole arbiters of our systems of alimentary taste; consumption of food is also defined by cultural orientation and other complex value systems. There are those who choose to consume only plant matter to respect the rights of animals, equally there are those who consume pets without a second thought. What informs these choices depends on how we understand our own place in the world, the values we attribute to the things that surrounds us, the relationships we maintain with our fellow beings and those with living things in general. It is in the space between those variable definitions that we find food taboos and the complex stories whi…
Monitoring a meat-free pledge with smartphones:An experimental study
2020
Pledges are a popular strategy to encourage meat reduction, though experimental studies of their efficacy are lacking. Three-hundred and twenty-five participants from three different countries (UK, Germany, Australia) were randomly assigned to pledge 28 days meat-free or not, and their behavior was tracked via smartphones. Participants answered daily surveys regarding their eating behavior, meat cravings, and shared photos of their meals. Baseline data was collected prior to the pledge, after the 28 days, and one-month post-intervention. Participants assigned to the pledge condition ate less meat across the 28 days, compared to control participants. Meat reductions, observed at outtake, did…