Animals, food, social stratification

Abstract

Humanity and animality are concepts constructed in order to create a certain understanding of what it is to he human. Although man is an animal, however, he is the only animal who cooks and does not do it only for his species. Humans feed on animals and feed other animals, whether for breeding, maintenance and selling, or for animals chosen for companionship. In this work, I propose a reflection based on food and body shape, these factors being determinant, although subject to social mobility, of the position occupied by human and non-human animals in the class structure.