Let’s talk about What the heck is happening in this photo. This picture was found from Carol J. Adams blog about the sexual politics of food and women. This photo screams one thing to me and that is Indulgence. by promoting this ice cream brand with this photo it is expressing an indulgence in the products while using an attractive yet curvy model that is a cow. It’s always women that are used in advertisements like this to learn in clientele. You almost never see a man as the face of a brand. They simply do not market well. to mention that this is also just kind of gross to look at. I don’t want to go get an ice cream with a cow’s butt in my face as the promotion. There is a logical sense to these images and it’s just disturbing and gross. This does not make me want to go get ice cream from this establishment.
I genuinely don’t know where to begin with this photo. This is another great example of how companies use female bodies in female sexuality to market their product. This is obviously a small chicken that has been cooked. The legs are tether together and this shows a sexualized image of a woman laying down with her legs tied together. Some people genuinely think that this is funny and not a big deal but nobody wants to look at this. It’s just kind of gross and unsettling. This is a great example of something Carol J Adams wrote about in her novel “The Pornography of Meat”. Adams argues that the exploitation of women and animals is rooted in similar cultural narratives. Women are often objectified, commodified, and reduced to their bodies, just as animals are treated as commodities for human consumption.In this context, meat is often sexualized in a way that mirrors the objectification of women in pornography.
Another photo from Carol J. Adams shows a cow that is obviously a female who is super thin and has a measuring tape around her waist to indicate that she is dieting or thin. This is a complete message to women and their bodies and body images. In essence, the “pornography of meat” is about how the culture surrounding meat consumption is often deeply intertwined with the objectification of women, reinforcing patriarchal structures that commodify and control both women and animals.
This photo is one that I found on my own. This to me, describes everything that Carol Adams said in a nutshell. It shows the different names of a piece of meat that they also describe as a woman. This is such an old and disturbing image, it shows that women’s suffrage has always been an issue if not worse before today. So before you go buy ice cream from that skinny sexy looking cow or stop in at the meat market, remember these photos and how this is reality.
Citations-
Sayers, Daniel O. “The Most Wretched of Beings in the Cage of Capitalism – International Journal of Historical Archaeology.” SpringerLink, Springer US, 15 June 2014, link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10761-014-0268-z.
“Examples of the Sexual Politics of Meat.” Carol J. Adams, caroljadams.com/examples-of-spom/. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
The Politics of Meat, static1.squarespace.com/static/54792ff7e4b0674c74cb719d/t/55dc8dace4b0ad76d7277cb7/1440517548517/ANTENNAE+ISSUE+14.pdf. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.