Episode 139 - Of Meat and Men: How Beef Became Synonymous with Settler-Colonial Domination

<div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="ao13l" data-offset-key="f7r2f-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="f7r2f-0-0"><span data-offset-key= "f7r2f-0-0">"Beef. It’s what’s for dinner," the baritone voices of actors Robert Mitchum and Sam Elliott told us in the 1990s. "We’re not gonna let Joe Biden and Kamala Harris cut America’s meat!" cried Mike Pence during a speech in Iowa last year. "To meet the Biden Green New Deal targets, America has to, get this, America has to stop eating meat," lamented Donald Trump adviser Larry Kudlow on</span> <span data-offset-key="f7r2f-0-1">Fox Business</span><span data-offset-key="f7r2f-0-2">. Repeatedly, we’re reminded that red meat is the lifeblood of American culture, a hallmark of masculine power.</span></div> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="f7r2f-0-0"> </div> </div> <div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="ao13l" data-offset-key="23sgs-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="23sgs-0-0"><span data-offset-key="23sgs-0-0">This association has lingered for well over a century. Starting in the late 1800s, as white settlers expropriated Indigenous land killing Native people and wildlife in pursuit of westward expansion across North America, the development and promotion of cattle ranching — and its product: meat — was purposefully imbued with the symbolism of dominance, aggression, and of course, manliness.</span></div> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="23sgs-0-0"> </div> </div> <div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="ao13l" data-offset-key="15iql-0-0"> <div class= "public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="15iql-0-0"><span data-offset-key= "15