Glossary
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Absent Referent
Animals in name and body are made absent as animals for meat to exist. Animals’ lives precede and enable the existence of meat. If animals are alive they cannot be meat. Thus a dead body replaces the live animal. Without animals there would be no meat eating, yet they are absent from the act of eating meat because they have been transformed into food.See Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A feminist-vegetarian critical theory (New York: Continnum; 1991) p. 40.
Animal
Anyone -- human or animal



