Meat And Masculinity

Through out the human history, there has been an association with meat and masculinity. According to Adams (1991), “The literal evocation of men power is found in the concept of meat” (p.33). We have been doing gender and make a relationship with power by linking it to the different type of foods that the person’s ingest. Adams argued (1991), “Meat was a valuable economic commodity; those who controlled this commodity achieved power” (p. 34). Empirical research will identify if the degree of masculinity among university students varies depending on the diets that they adopt such as vegetarian/vegan diets. More explicit, to show the perception of vegan and vegetarian males as less masculine in terms of the factors such as religious practice,
animal rights or environmental reasons that contribute to opt for this diet.