Title: Perverse visibilities? Foregrounding non-human animals in ‘ethical’ and ‘sustainable’ meat consumption.

The invisibility of meat production operations and their associated non-human animals is commonly understood as a causal factor in the use of non-human animals as food. This paper critically explores this assumption using empirical evidence from a study of producers and consumers of ‘ethical’ and ‘sustainable’ meat in Melbourne, Australia. Rather than challenging meat consumption, I find that increased visibility of non-human animals and their ‘processing’ resettles consumers in ‘improved’ practices of meat consumption. Identifying a failure to address the underlying and persistent normalisation of non-human animals as food, I argue that advocacy and dietary campaigns need to mount a more profound challenge to the status quo regarding both meat and non-human animals.

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General Models for Automated Essay Scoring: Exploring an Alternative to the Status Quo

Journal of Educational Computing Research ◽

10.2190/19jk-ump5-12ee-4xwe ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 101-113 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

P. Adam Kelly

Keyword(s):

Empirical Evidence ◽

Writing Assessment ◽

Model Performance ◽

Status Quo ◽

Automated Essay Scoring ◽

The Status ◽

Essay Scoring ◽

Better Than

Powers, Burstein, Chodorow, Fowles, and Kukich (2002) suggested that automated essay scoring (AES) may benefit from the use of “general” scoring models designed to score essays irrespective of the prompt for which an essay was written. They reasoned that such models may enhance score credibility by signifying that an AES system measures the same writing characteristics across all essays. They reported empirical evidence that general scoring models performed nearly as well in agreeing with human readers as did prompt-specific models, the “status quo” for most AES systems. In this study, general and prompt-specific models were again compared, but this time, general models performed as well as or better than prompt-specific models. Moreover, general models measured the same writing characteristics across all essays, while prompt-specific models measured writing characteristics idiosyncratic to the prompt. Further comparison of model performance across two different writing tasks and writing assessment programs bolstered the case for general models.

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Animal-based food systems are unsafe: severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) fosters the debate on meat consumption

Public Health Nutrition ◽

10.1017/s1368980020002657 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 23 (17) ◽

pp. 3250-3255 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michelle Cristine Medeiros Jacob ◽

Ivanilda Soares Feitosa ◽

Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

Keyword(s):

Food Systems ◽

Food System ◽

Meat Consumption ◽

Zoonotic Diseases ◽

Meat Production ◽

Rational Analysis ◽

Nutrition Security ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

Food And Nutrition ◽

The Status

AbstractObjective:The current pandemic restarts a debate on permanently banning wildlife consumption in an effort to prevent further public health threats. In this commentary, we offer two ideas to enhance the discussion on foodborne zoonotic diseases in food systems.Design:First, we focus on the probable consequences that the loss of access to wildlife could cause to the status of food and nutrition security of many people in developing countries that rely on bushmeat to subsist. Second, we argue that all animal-based food systems, especially the ones based on intensive husbandry, present food safety threats.Conclusion:To ban the access to bushmeat without a rational analysis of all human meat production and consumption in the global animal-based food system will not help us to prevent future outbreaks.

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Markets: Preserving Funeral Markets with Ready-to-Embalm Laws

The Journal of Economic Perspectives ◽

10.1257/jep.21.4.201 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 201-216 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

David E Harrington

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Market Share ◽

Status Quo ◽

Retail Price ◽

Funeral Directors ◽

Funeral Service ◽

The Status ◽

Funeral Homes ◽

The Cost

Thirty-nine states currently have ready-to-embalm laws, which typically require that all firms selling any type of funeral service (even those specializing in cremations) have embalming preparation rooms and all funeral directors be trained as embalmers. Ready-to-embalm laws are designed to preserve the status-quo in funeral markets, thereby protecting currently licensed funeral directors from the ravages of competition. These laws attempt to preserve funeral markets as they existed in the mid-twentieth century, markets that centered on traditional funerals sold by small, full-service funeral homes. The economic chemicals needed to preserve the status quo are harsh, leading to higher funeral prices and often poorer-quality services. The empirical evidence suggests that these laws reduce the cremation rate, the market share of Internet casket retailers, the penetration of national chains, and the number of funeral directors who are immigrants. They also appear to substantially increase the retail price of direct cremations and the cost of traditional funerals. Commissions in several states have recently recommended repealing ready-to-embalm laws, arguing that they are anticompetitive. The evidence presented in this paper should make their recommendations harder to ignore.

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Socially Transformative Resilience: A Conceptual Model and Research Agenda for a New Construct

10.31234/osf.io/t97qh ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Katherine S. Leventhal ◽

Vilas Sawrikar ◽

Sumeet Jain ◽

Angus MacBeth

Keyword(s):

Empirical Evidence ◽

Lived Experiences ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Status Quo ◽

Future Research ◽

Dominant Culture ◽

Psychosocial Wellbeing ◽

The Status ◽

The Face ◽

Original Approach

Marginalised individuals face significant and consistent adversities and injustices that their dominant culture counterparts rarely or never face, such as discrimination, low resource access, and violence. These challenges have been linked to poor wellbeing, both empirically and in individuals’ lived experiences. An original approach to improving this situation is introduced here via a novel transtheoretical construct: socially transformative resilience. Socially transformative resilience is conceived as a type of resilience in which individuals not only improve their psychosocial wellbeing in the face of challenge, but also resist, transcend, and/or seek to change the status quo, increasing their liberation as well. The key components and mechanisms of this new construct are described in detail, drawing on theoretical and empirical evidence. Key propositions of the model include the dual importance of moral and emotional initial responses to stressors, the centrality of a multidimensional reflection process, and the utility of acceptability-control appraisals in choosing which actions and resources to activate in service of wellbeing and liberation. An agenda for future research is presented, including examining and refining the model, developing a measure, creating interventions, and investigating relationships with psychopathology.

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