{"id":475,"date":"2007-10-28T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T14:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2008-05-21T21:54:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T19:54:13","slug":"an-image-and-its-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"an image and its message"},"content":{"rendered":"

apropos of the old “sexual politics of meat”<\/a> debate…<\/p>\n

here is a classic misogynistic illustration used to promote meat by telling us to “break the dull beef habit” (by imagining a woman<\/em>‘s body made up of “tender juicy” beef cuts);
\nslideshow10.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

and here are two possible ways of making use of that image in order to promote vegetarianism:<\/p>\n

  • peta<\/a>‘s take<\/a>, which<\/a> casts<\/a> a real woman in the same pose, makes the same “cuts of meat” markings on her body and just adds the text “all animals have the same parts”:
    \n    binghamforpeta.jpg<\/a><\/li>\n
  • an example of what i would consider a critical<\/strong> take, whose message to the viewer is no longer a plea to look at a cow’s body in the same way as at a woman’s body and viceversa, but rather to STOP viewing anyone – human and non-human animals alike – as being made up of “cuts” and ready for consumption, because we all should have the same right to bodily autonomy and integrity<\/em> (the ecofeminist<\/a> message):
    \n    whatsyourcut2.jpg<\/a><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    apropos of the old “sexual politics of meat” debate… here is a classic misogynistic illustration used to promote meat by telling us to “break the dull beef habit” (by imagining a woman‘s body made up of “tender juicy” beef cuts); … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,19,38,28,9,41,18,3,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-animal-rights","category-bodily-autonomy","category-body-image","category-critica-sociala","category-english","category-environment","category-feminism","category-links","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}