The food practices of humans are determined by values, attitudes, beliefs, and environmental and religious circumstances; all of which are the products of tradition, culture, and contacts. Knowledge and culture affect the intake of a particular food. The success in understanding the culture of other countries or ethnic groups lies in understanding their rituals in food consumption customs. In developing countries, culture plays a crucial role in determining food patterns. Each ethnic group has its own culture manifested to the widely practiced diet, way of living, celebrations, dressing and dances at the cities and the cultural fabric intertwining is still continuing.
Surprisingly, what has kept man hooked on meat this whole time is culture. …show more content…
Throughout the history, humans have formed values and lifestyle which either encourages or discourages consuming meat. For example, the rate of vegetarianism in India is 40% and the consumption of meat is subject to their cultural understanding of how sinful it is. Many societies have somehow superstitious belief in their culture, like considering some animals to be sacred. In another part of the world, the cultural understanding of refraining from consuming meat lies solely with the idea of killing a 'living …show more content…
As such, culture does not exist per se, but arises as a process in reaction to contexts (103), which means the study of a culture can help illuminate the factors that led to its emergence. Veganism as a culture may therefore be taken as a reaction to certain contexts, such as capitalism, industrial farming and agriculture, social mobility, and so on. Gill traces the origins of all cultures from the “shared knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and artifacts” that engenders “similarities across individuals or entities within a group, ensuring that participants have many self-similar neighbors to observe” (1). This implies that, to understand veganism as a culture, it is necessary not just to reveal what events they emerged as a reaction to (Mitchell 103), but the “shared knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and artifacts ” (Gill 1) that shaped that
Surprisingly, what has kept man hooked on meat this whole time is culture. …show more content…
Throughout the history, humans have formed values and lifestyle which either encourages or discourages consuming meat. For example, the rate of vegetarianism in India is 40% and the consumption of meat is subject to their cultural understanding of how sinful it is. Many societies have somehow superstitious belief in their culture, like considering some animals to be sacred. In another part of the world, the cultural understanding of refraining from consuming meat lies solely with the idea of killing a 'living …show more content…
As such, culture does not exist per se, but arises as a process in reaction to contexts (103), which means the study of a culture can help illuminate the factors that led to its emergence. Veganism as a culture may therefore be taken as a reaction to certain contexts, such as capitalism, industrial farming and agriculture, social mobility, and so on. Gill traces the origins of all cultures from the “shared knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and artifacts” that engenders “similarities across individuals or entities within a group, ensuring that participants have many self-similar neighbors to observe” (1). This implies that, to understand veganism as a culture, it is necessary not just to reveal what events they emerged as a reaction to (Mitchell 103), but the “shared knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and artifacts ” (Gill 1) that shaped that