Meat Love: An Ideology of the Flesh

'An exquisitely crafted little hand-grenade lobbed at the gentrification of the carnivorous mind. With breathtaking verve and elegance, Husain traces through phenomena such as #cottagecore influencers, King Charles III's views on harmony, Plato, Pythagoras, horror movies, and celebrity cooks. I am not exaggerating when I say I have thought about Meat Love every day since beginning it. As someone who cut their teeth politically in vegan climate justice circles, I didn’t think any of the arguments in it could possibly surprise me; I was wrong. ‘ Sophie Lewis

 'A bracing interrogation of the bourgeois romance with so-called ‘ethical’ meat. What does it mean, Husain asks, that our love of animals is not only compatible with, but culminates in, our consuming their flesh? Her answer disturbs and dazzles.' Amia Srinivasan‘

Meat Love is illuminating and exploratory … It marks Husain out as an exhilarating new voice in food writing.’ Times Literary Supplement 

‘What [Husain is] saying, [is] that whether the meat on the table has come from a factory farm or an organic farm, or whether you’re tucking in at Burger King or the River Cafe, the path to the plate is still paved with violence.’ The Independent

‘Meat Love is all around us, Husain argues. Go to any supermarket across the country and you will see it in action.’ The Guardian

Excerpted in Real Review

Excerpted in Granta  

Interview on Novara Media

Interview on The Full English Podcast

Interview on Monocle