March 2020 PMID 31707073

Meat-related cognitive dissonance: A conceptual framework for understanding how meat eaters reduce negative arousal from eating animals.

Hank Rothgerber

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Abstract in brief

The text discusses "Meat-related cognitive dissonance" (MRCD), which is the mental discomfort meat eaters experience when their behavior (eating animals) conflicts with their beliefs or feelings about animals.
The framework explains how people try to avoid or reduce this discomfort through strategies like ignoring facts, justifying their behavior, or degrading animals, influenced by factors such as individual differences and cultural context.
Understanding these mechanisms can help develop ways to encourage reducing meat consumption and raises questions for further research on how people manage this moral conflict.]

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