Attitudes Towards Meat-Eating In Teenage Girls
From the course of these interviews, eight themes of the cultural meaning of meat were identified among groups of vegetarian and non-vegetarian teenage girls: Animal (66% Veg, 33% non-veg), Taste/Texture/Smell (66% veg, 60% non-veg), Flesh and blood (86% veg, 26% non-veg), color (33% veg, 20% non-veg), miscellaneous (60% veg, 46% non-veg), eating well ( 40% non-veg), Life/Death (66% veg), Health (20% veg).
Vegetarians were generally against the killing of animals for food, the sensory properties of meat and blood.
Non-vegetarians perceive meat positively, both with respect to sensory properties and associating it with luxury and special occasions.
There was some evidence of a dislike for using animals for food even in the non-vegetarian group, but those non-vegetarians who related animals to meat were less bothered by the origins of the meat.
Meat is a highly valued food for some teenagers.
Health was not an apparent reason for adoption of a vegetarian diet, most vegetarian teenage girls in the study had an aversion to blood and associated meat with blood.
ANIMALS USED FOR FOODP.M. Kenyon, M.E. Barker, Centre for Human Nutrition, University of Sheffield, 1996 International
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