Animalizing discourse, also, often substitutes for an analysis of why violence against women happens; that is, rapists and batterers or others who commit acts of violence are often animalized (called "brutes," "animals," etc.), when in fact they are acting like humans, in that their violence is deliberate and often planned.
A feminist-vegetarian critical theory begins, as we have seen, with the perception that women and animals are similarly positioned in a patriarchal world, as objects rather than subjects. Men are instructed as to how they should behave toward women and animals in the Tenth Commandment. Since the fall of Man is attributed to a woman and an animal, the Brotherhood of Man excludes both women and animals.
We give them life and later we can take it, precisely because in the beginning we gave it. Based on our knowledge of how the story is going to end we interpret its beginning. The way in which the story of meat is conceptualized is with constant references to humans' will; we allow animals their existence and we begin to believe that animals cannot exist without us.
The meaning of meat is reproduced each time it is served and eaten. Food in general and meat in specific, like the female body, is a "site of visual pleasure, or lure of the gaze."