Carne vegetal industrializada: (re) invenção de sentidos, memórias e práticas alimentares veganas

Abstract

This study aimed to understand meanings attributed to the consumption of industrialized plant-based meat in the constitution of food memory based on eating practices guided by ethical, animalistic and environmentalist perspectives. Such particularities are part of the characteristics of vegan groups, from whom the consumption of products and services does not require animal sacrifice and exploitation. The research carried out with vegan groups with the support of the ethnographic method and the technique of participant observation was structured taking complementary and interdependent analytical perspectives, vegan eating practices and social network in which recipes that include industrialized vegetable meat are shared. The culinary knowledge associated with the preparation of vegan recipes based on industrialized vegetable meats is part of eating practices crossed by preserving natural resources. These adaptations are permeated by technological innovations in the food industry in the production of industrialized plant-based meat. It is through these eating practices, adjusted to animalist and environmentalist ethics that (re) significations occur in the constitution of food memory.