#ecofeminism.

Eating animals acts as mirror and representation of patriarchal values. Meat eating is the re-insciption of male power at every meal. The patriarchal gaze sees not the fragmented flesh of dead animals but appetizing food. If our appetites re-inscribe patriarchy, our actions regarding eating animals will either reify or challenge this received culture. If meat is a symbol of male dominance then the presence of meat proclaims the disempowering of women

the way in which women and nature have been conceptualized historically in the Western intellectual tradition has resulted in devaluing whatever is associated with women, emotion, animals, nature, and the body, while imultaneously elevating in value those things associated with men, reason, humans, culture, and the mind.