Special Feature: Meatpaper Embraces “Meat Culture”

This article profiles Meatpaper, a San Francisco-based quarterly journal focusing on meat and meat culture, including concepts of “whole animal” cooking, which proclaims to do right by the animal by preparing and consuming all parts of it.

According to the publication’s founders, meat culture is “something that Meatpaper has kind of defined as an accumulation of all these different things that are happening. So many people are creating things about meat, using meat as a material; so many books have come out in the last few years investigating meat from different angles. And there are all of these kitschy cultural artifacts.”

The concept of vegetarianism is included in the definition of meat culture, as they likely think more about meat than meat-eaters do. The publication’s subscription base reportedly includes vegetarians and currently totals about 5,000 subscribers, according to this article.