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      Representations of Death Among Italian Vegetarians: An Ethnographic Research on Environment, Disgust and Transcendence

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          This paper focuses on the motives for vegetarian choices in contemporary Italian food culture, with specific reference to the role of the representations of death. The study adopts a qualitative research design aimed at an in-depth exploration of the reasons for avoiding meat, following an ethnographic method. Twenty-two participants (55% women, 45% men) aged 19-74, all vegetarians or vegans, mainly from Northern and Central Italy, were involved. Data from the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis were examined according to the qualitative thematic analysis: the results show the role of death in the construction of disgust towards meat, running parallel with an emphasis on spirituality, ethical treatment of animals and the environment as reasons for avoiding meat, in particular, the concern-generating disgust and its relationship with the representation of death as a contaminating essence. The basis of disgust lies in this connection, from which the idea that oral consumption of contaminants characterized by corruptive properties, passing through the flesh of dead animals to humans, derives. The role of anti-speciesism is considered as a latent perspective, which may influence the vegetarian and vegan choices.

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                Journal
                EJOP
                Eur J Psychol
                Europe's Journal of Psychology
                Eur. J. Psychol.
                PsychOpen
                1841-0413
                31 August 2017
                : 13
                : 3
                : 378-395
                Affiliations
                [a ]FISPPA Department, University of Padova , Padova, Italy
                [b ]Clinical and Social Psychologist, Padova, Italy
                [3]Webster University Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
                Author notes
                [* ]Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), Via Venezia 14, 35131 Padova – Italy. Tel. 00390498276646. ines.testoni@ 123456unipd.it
                Article
                ejop.v13i3.1301
                10.5964/ejop.v13i3.1301
                5590526
                4a01d598-533d-490d-8ef1-17f212e4c193
                Copyright @ 2017

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 3.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                : 18 September 2016
                : 17 April 2017
                Categories
                Research Reports

                Psychology
                veganism,transcendence,representations of death,environmentalism,anti-speciesism,animal dignity,vegetarianism

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