Victoria University senior psychology lecturer Marc Wilson, an omnivore, and PhD student Michael Allen, a vegetarian, say meat is symbolic.
"Why do people eat meat? Partly, it's a way of expressing dominance or masculinity . . . Really masculine men eat more meat," Dr Wilson said.
National Party supporters and men who saw the world in a hierarchical way tended to eat more meat than Labour Party supporters and women – who saw the world in a more interconnected, less structured way, the researchers found.
Perhaps there is also the small matter of the price of a piece of steak....
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My God! We can't have realy masculine men. Ban meat immediately.
That's the point too.
The price makes meat a status symbol. Likewise cigars. It's all about status, all about being exclusive. It's all about conspicious consumption, utility comes a distant second.
Dr Wilson doesn't seem to be very origional to students of Institutional Economics. He is on to something.
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