Jason Hannan
About Jason Hannan
Jason Hannan is associate professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications at the University of Winnipeg. His books include Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial (Sydney University Press, 2020) and Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media (Oxford University Press, 2023). His research focuses on the politics of truth in the public sphere. His current book project is Reactionary Speech: The Denial of Reality.
Meat industry’s moment of reckoning
Merchants of false hope acknowledge the link between animal agriculture and climate change, yet firmly resist the call to reduce meat production and consumption.