Rodan, Debbie
Edith Cowan University
Australia
Dr Debbie Rodan is Associate Professor in Media & Cultural Studies at Edith Cowan University and author of Identity and Justice: Conflicts, Contradictions and Contingencies (Peter Lang, 2004), co-author of Disability, Obesity and Ageing: Popular Media Identifications (with Katie Ellis & Pia Lebeck, Routledge, 2014) and co-author of Activism and Digital Culture in Australia (with Jane Mummery, Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). Her research interests include public attitudes to animal welfare, identity construction, and engagement of digital media for social change.
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ArticlesIntroduction Negative stereotyping of alternative diets such as veganism and other plant-based diets has been common in Australia, conventionally a meat-eating culture (OECD qtd. in Ting). Indeed, meat consumption in Australia is sanctioned by the ubiquity of advertising linking meat-eating to health, vitality and nation-building, and public challenges to such...Read more
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EditorialAustralia is still framed as one of the world’s main meat-eating cultures (OECD qtd. in Ting), with a strong normative connection of meat-eating with national identity, as has been illustrated—supposedly in a tongue in cheek way, although this depends on perspective—in Australia Day campaigning by both Meat and Livestock Australia (see fig. 1), and the National Australia Day Council (see...Read more
