Manufacturing ignorance: think tanks, climate change and the animal-based diet

Despite the evidence concerning the substantial greenhouse gases emissions resulting from animal-based food production, climate policies and institutions around the world have barely made an issue of this link until very recently. To better understand this lack of attention, we focus on the discursi...

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Autores: Almiron, Núria, 1967-, Rodrigo Alsina, Miquel, 1955-, Moreno, Jose A.
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Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Palavra-chave:Think tanks
climate change
animal-based diet
ideological denial
ignorance
speciesism
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spelling Manufacturing ignorance: think tanks, climate change and the animal-based dietAlmiron, Núria, 1967-Rodrigo Alsina, Miquel, 1955-Moreno, Jose A.Think tanksclimate changeanimal-based dietideological denialignorancespeciesismDespite the evidence concerning the substantial greenhouse gases emissions resulting from animal-based food production, climate policies and institutions around the world have barely made an issue of this link until very recently. To better understand this lack of attention, we focus on the discursive role of think tanks as prominent but under researched actors attempting to shape public policy. This contribution examines whether European think tanks have discussed animal-based diets regarding climate change policies and mitigation actions. We conduct a frame analysis study of 110 European think tanks, encoding all their available online output in English related to the link between global heating and animal-based food. We conclude that European think tanks have contributed to a manufacturing of ignorance regarding the impact our dietary choices have on the climate. Ideological reasons related to economic, anthropocentric and patriarchal worldviews explain this role.This work was supported by the Spanish State Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación, AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under grant CSO2016-78421-R; and by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under Grant FPU18/04207.Taylor & Francis202120212021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/48977http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1933842reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésEnvironmental politics. 2021; 9 Jun 2021. 22 p.info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CSO2016-78421-R© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/489772026-06-12T07:21:37Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Manufacturing ignorance: think tanks, climate change and the animal-based diet
title Manufacturing ignorance: think tanks, climate change and the animal-based diet
spellingShingle Manufacturing ignorance: think tanks, climate change and the animal-based diet
Almiron, Núria, 1967-
Think tanks
climate change
animal-based diet
ideological denial
ignorance
speciesism
title_short Manufacturing ignorance: think tanks, climate change and the animal-based diet
title_full Manufacturing ignorance: think tanks, climate change and the animal-based diet
title_fullStr Manufacturing ignorance: think tanks, climate change and the animal-based diet
title_full_unstemmed Manufacturing ignorance: think tanks, climate change and the animal-based diet
title_sort Manufacturing ignorance: think tanks, climate change and the animal-based diet
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Almiron, Núria, 1967-
Rodrigo Alsina, Miquel, 1955-
Moreno, Jose A.
author Almiron, Núria, 1967-
author_facet Almiron, Núria, 1967-
Rodrigo Alsina, Miquel, 1955-
Moreno, Jose A.
author_role author
author2 Rodrigo Alsina, Miquel, 1955-
Moreno, Jose A.
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Think tanks
climate change
animal-based diet
ideological denial
ignorance
speciesism
topic Think tanks
climate change
animal-based diet
ideological denial
ignorance
speciesism
description Despite the evidence concerning the substantial greenhouse gases emissions resulting from animal-based food production, climate policies and institutions around the world have barely made an issue of this link until very recently. To better understand this lack of attention, we focus on the discursive role of think tanks as prominent but under researched actors attempting to shape public policy. This contribution examines whether European think tanks have discussed animal-based diets regarding climate change policies and mitigation actions. We conduct a frame analysis study of 110 European think tanks, encoding all their available online output in English related to the link between global heating and animal-based food. We conclude that European think tanks have contributed to a manufacturing of ignorance regarding the impact our dietary choices have on the climate. Ideological reasons related to economic, anthropocentric and patriarchal worldviews explain this role.
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