%0 Journal Article
%T Selling Eden: Environmentalism, Local Meat, and the Postcommodity Fetish
%A Vasile Stanescu
%J American Behavioral Scientist
%@ 1552-3381
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0002764219830462
%X Advocates for eating locally raised animals claim that their practice is helpful in protecting the environment. However, the opposite is true. As such, their references to ¡°nature¡± have less to do with a scientific stable ecosystem and, instead, represent a call for a return to a ¡°natural¡± order of human¡¯s supposedly benevolent domain over other animals. Instead of a science-based environmental policy, local meat operates as a type of ¡°postcommodity fetish.¡± It is because of the desire to escape the confines of consumerist culture, to return to romanticized idea of Edenic-purity, which underlies the desire to purchase ¡°locally¡± produced animal products
%K locavore
%K humane meat
%K free-range
%K compassionate carnivore
%K Joel Salatin
%K Michael Pollan
%K critical animal studies
%K climate change
%K commodity fetish
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002764219830462