Meat consumption corridors are a tool for transformative meat governance. They are intended — both conceptually and in practice — to help bring meat consumption down, in a fair and just manner, to levels that can be considered ecologically sustainable and socially acceptable. Accordingly, this tool also supports moving away from industrial meat production. The mix of strategies for defunding meat that the Heidelberg Declaration promotes are very much in line with strategies to bring about meat consumption corridors. In this blog, Minna Kanerva describes the corridors and their potential operationalization. She also explores ways that the corridor framework could positively change discourses by addressing the politicized meat/no-meat dichotomy, especially in the global North. Finally, the she suggests that the corridor framework could help tackle societal inaction originating in the collective denial of the urgency of transforming the meat system.

Please read the full article here and find out more about Minna Kanerva’s work here.