Background Plant-based foods in recent times have received attention from
environmentalists due to their lower impacts on the environment. Additionally, they are found …

Meat eaters often have an ambivalent relationship with the common practice of killing
animals for food. They enjoy the taste of meat but dislike the harming of animals that it …

Meat eating is a common behaviour, despite many people claiming to like, love, and care
about animals. The apparent disconnection between not wanting animals to suffer, yet killing …

Though many ethicists have the intuition that we should leave nature alone, Kyle Johannsen
argues that we have a duty to research safe ways of providing large-scale assistance to wild …

The 'meat paradox'is the psychological conflict between people's enjoyment of meat and
their moral discomfort in relation to animal suffering. To date, most studies on the meat …

Many people wish to avoid harming animals, yet most people also consume meat. This
theoretical 'meat paradox'is a form of cognitive dissonance and has grave negative …

Abstract Knowledge is a presumed motivator for changed consumption practices in ethical
eating discourse: the consumer learns more about where their food comes from and makes …

The current study modeled the attributions underlying moral concern for animals during
childhood and adulthood with the aim of better understanding how concern for animals …

We, as humans, are deeply fascinated by animals from an early age yet we also in many
ways exploit animals. Eating animals is a particular “blind spot” in our ethical thinking about …

Food choice has long been recognized as an interaction between psychological, social,
cultural, economic, and biological forces through life course events and experiences …