There Is No Humane Meat

Review of The Omnivore’s Deception (2025) by John Sanbonmatsu

Author(s)

  • Carol Gigliotti Emily Carr University of Art and Design image/svg+xml Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.25466

Abstract

Review of:

John Sanbonmatsu, The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves. NYU Press, 2025. 347 pp. $30.00 (hb).

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Author Biography

  • Carol Gigliotti, Emily Carr University of Art and Design

    Carol Gigliotti is Professor Emerita at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Penguin, 2007.

Sanbonnatsu, John. “Animal Liberation: Should the Left Care?” Z Magazine (October 1989): 101–10.

Sanbonmatsu, John, ed. Critical Theory and Animal Liberation. Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.

Sanbonmatsu, John. The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves. New York University, 2025

Stallwood, Kim. “The Omnivore’s Deception by John Sanbonmatsu: Author Interview”, Kim Stallwood’s Substack, 22 May 2025, https://kimstallwood.substack.com/p/the-omnivores-deception-by-john-sanbonmatsu

Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. Animals and Capital. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “Three Fragments from a Biopolitical History of Animals: Questions of Body, Soul, and the Body Politic in Homer, Plato, and Aristotle.” Journal for Critical Animal Studies 6, no. 1 (2008): 17–31.

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Published

2026-08-14

How to Cite

Gigliotti, Carol. 2026. “There Is No Humane Meat: Review of The Omnivore’s Deception (2025) by John Sanbonmatsu”. Humanimalia 16 (2): 405–413. https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.25466.