What's for dinner? Here's why many people don't actually want to know, write Stefan__Leach and jared_piazza
In our first study, we asked about 300 meat-eaters if they engage in strategic ignorance about animals reared for food by looking at how much they agreed with statements such as: “I would rather not know about food-animals' sentience.”to eating meals that contained meat, with statements like: “I don’t want to eat meals without meat.”
Those who were more committed to eating meat were more likely to want to avoid evidence about food-animals’ sentience. Ironically, this first study showed that many meat consumers—particularly those committed to eating meat—are aware that they engage in strategic ignorance. Next, we wanted to know if this avoidance applied exclusively to evidence that suggests the animals people eat are intelligent. To explore this, we asked 400 or so meat-eaters about their interest in reading scientific articles about intelligent and unintelligent pigs and dogs. We also asked them how committed they were to eating meat.
Figure 1 shows the results. Those who were more committed to eating meat were less interested in reading articles about intelligent pigs . But they were no less interested in any of the other articles—e.g., about unintelligent pigs or dogs. This meant that a strong preference for eating meat was specifically associated with a desire to avoid evidence that makes eating animals more emotionally fraught—evidence that suggests the animals we eat are intelligent.Source: Leach et al.
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