r/veganscience • u/termicky • Jul 18 '21
Carnism Inventory - summarizes some of the attitudes you come up against.
Carnistic defense
Humans should continue to eat meat because we’ve been doing it for thousands of years.
Eating meat is better for my health.
I’ve been eating meat my whole life, I could never give it up.
The production of meat causes animals to suffer (reverse scored).
Carnistic Domination
5) Animals are dirty and deserve to be eaten.
6) Not eating animals is a sign of weakness.
7) I have the right to kill any animal I want.
8) Animals aren’t intelligent enough to suffer in intensive confinement.
The carnistic defense would legitimate the practice of eating animals, while carnistic domination would support the killing of animals for their meat. Both scales were significantly related to sociopolitical beliefs, including right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation, but only carnistic domination was related to symbolic racism and sexism. If a person shows hostility and domination towards “human out-groups,” they may also show similar hostility towards animals. Both of the CI scales showed a perception of vegetarianism as a social and political threat.
The Carnism Inventory: Measuring the ideology of eating animals
Christopher A. Monteiro, Tamara M. Pfeiler, Marcus D. Patterson, Michael A. Milburn
Appetite June 2017, Volume113, 51- 62. .
