'It's just pølse': Convenient meat consumption and reduction in Norway.

Autor: Hansen A; Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, PB 1116, Blindern, 0317, Oslo, Norway., Wethal U; Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, PB 1116, Blindern, 0317, Oslo, Norway. Electronic address: u.b.wethal@sum.uio.no.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Appetite [Appetite] 2023 Sep 01; Vol. 188, pp. 106611. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 07.
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2023.106611
Abstrakt: Meat consumption and convenience food are both located at the heart of contemporary, industrialized, unhealthy and unsustainable food systems. In this article, we study the intersections between convenience food and 'meatification' of diets, focusing on the 'pølse'-an umbrella term including both hotdogs and a range of sausages-as the epitome of convenience food in Norway. We explore how the pølse is embedded in Norwegian food practices, and why it is considered convenient in different contexts. In doing so, we seek to explain how pølse eating is co-shaped by socio-material scripting processes that further entrench meat in food practices and complicate meat-reduction efforts. The analysis is based on 52 in-depth household interviews and autophotography in four geographical contexts in Norway, in addition to 22 park interviews and survey data centering on household food and meat practices. We use a theoretical apparatus combining social practice theory, foodscapes and socio-material scripts to analyse the conveniencization of pølse. The articles demonstrates how meat consumption and convenience food become entwined in specific social practices, and how conveniencization intersects with practices of care, notions of class, social expectations and normativity. Moreover, we show that despite the range of plant-based 'pølse' substitutes on offer, meat-eaters remain skeptical to its taste, and substitutes rather seem to offer a way into established social occasions for non-meat eaters than a way out of meat eating.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest No conflict of interest.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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