Testoni Ines, Ghellar Tommaso, Rodelli Maddalena, De Cataldo Loriana, Zamperini Adriano
FISPPA Department, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Clinical and Social Psychologist, Padova, Italy.
Eur J Psychol. 2017 Aug 31;13(3):378-395. doi: 10.5964/ejop.v13i3.1301. eCollection 2017 Aug.
This paper focuses on the motives for vegetarian choices in contemporary Italian food culture, with specific reference to the role of the representations of death. The study adopts a qualitative research design aimed at an in-depth exploration of the reasons for avoiding meat, following an ethnographic method. Twenty-two participants (55% women, 45% men) aged 19-74, all vegetarians or vegans, mainly from Northern and Central Italy, were involved. Data from the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis were examined according to the qualitative thematic analysis: the results show the role of death in the construction of disgust towards meat, running parallel with an emphasis on spirituality, ethical treatment of animals and the environment as reasons for avoiding meat, in particular, the concern-generating disgust and its relationship with the representation of death as a contaminating essence. The basis of disgust lies in this connection, from which the idea that oral consumption of contaminants characterized by corruptive properties, passing through the flesh of dead animals to humans, derives. The role of anti-speciesism is considered as a latent perspective, which may influence the vegetarian and vegan choices.
本文聚焦于当代意大利饮食文化中选择素食的动机，特别提及死亡表征所起的作用。该研究采用定性研究设计，旨在运用人种志方法深入探究不吃肉的原因。研究涉及了22名年龄在19至74岁之间的参与者（55%为女性，45%为男性），他们均为素食者或纯素食者，主要来自意大利北部和中部。根据定性主题分析对诠释现象学分析的数据进行了审视：结果表明，死亡在构建对肉类的厌恶情绪中发挥了作用，与此同时，强调灵性、对动物和环境的道德对待也是不吃肉的原因，尤其是引发担忧的厌恶情绪及其与作为污染本质的死亡表征之间的关系。厌恶的根源就在于这种联系，由此衍生出这样一种观念，即通过食用具有腐败特性的污染物，从死去动物的肉体传递到人类身上。反物种主义的作用被视为一种潜在的观点，它可能会影响素食和纯素食的选择。
