Stop Mocking Mock Meats! Interrogating Media Reporting on Plant-Based Meats

Sunday, 11 July 2021 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Our photo of the plant-based meat section at Coles Fitzroy.

On this show we analyse mainstream media reporting on plant-based meats and discuss the benefits of eating plant-based rather than animal-based meats, for animals and the environment.

 

 Links:

 The article we discuss for most of the show is ‘Plant-based meat sales are soaring, but experts warn it may not be better for you or the environment’ by Cara Waters in The Sydney Morning Herald: https://amp.smh.com.au/business/companies/plant-based-meat-sales-are-soaring-but-experts-warn-it-may-not-be-better-for-you-or-the-environment-20210317-p57bi2.html

 We also discuss the article ‘Taste alone won't persuade Americans to swap out beef for plant-based burgers’ by Anna Mattila in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/amp/taste-alone-wont-persuade-americans-to-swap-out-beef-for-plant-based-burgers-158682

 The article ‘The Civilised Burger: Meat Alternatives as a Conversion Aid and Social Instrument for Australian Vegetarians and Vegans’ by Nath and Prideaux in the Australian Humanities Review is briefly touched on: http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-November2011/nath%26prideaux.html

 We finish the show by discussing cultured meat – for more on this, check out our previous episode on the topic: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode-202101171300/would-vegans-eat-cultured-meat

 

 Music played:

 Goldfinger ‘Walk Away’: http://www.goldfingermusic.com/

 The Living End ‘End of the World’: http://www.thelivingend.com.au/

 World/Inferno Friendly Society ‘Cats are not lucky creatures’: https://www.worldinferno.com/

 

 If you enjoy the music we play on our show, check out our Spotify playlist ‘Freedom of Species’! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3TJQujKYjGFoFP6LhBbaTS?si=a84054801d704f12

 

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Sunday 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Animal advocacy on the airwaves, hosted by a team of local animal advocates.

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The Freedom of Species Team

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