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From plate to pet: Promotion of trans‐species companionship by Korean animal activists
Author(s) -
Dugnoille Julien
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8322.12140
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , animal welfare , narrative , virtue , sociology , promotion (chess) , consumption (sociology) , environmental ethics , animal assisted therapy , gender studies , political science , pet therapy , politics , law , history , social science , ecology , biology , art , philosophy , literature , archaeology
In Korea cats and dogs are both pets and food. This article looks at how Korean activists bring the issue of animal welfare to the attention of Korean society in the context of cat and dog meat consumption. It explores the ways in which activists deploy rescue narratives in order to attract families willing to adopt rescued animals, thus transforming people's perception of livestock animals into that of potential lifetime companions. Combined here are the Confucian virtue of impartial benevolence and 18th‐century Western moral philosophy.