Meat is a cultural construct made to seem natural and inevitable. By the time the argument from analogy has been made, the individual making such an argument has probably consumed animals since before the time she or he could talk. Rationalizations for consuming animals were probably offered when this individual at age four or five was discomfited upon discovering that meat came from dead animals. The taste of dead flesh preceded the rationalizations, and offered a strong foundation for believing the rationalizations to be true.
Carol J. Adams, 1991, “Ecofeminism and the eating of animals”, Hypatia 6, pp.134-137
