About Veronika Settele:

Veronika.Settele@fu-berlin.de

Veronika Settele is research associate at the FU Berlin’s Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, where she also serves as assistant editor of the Journal Geschichte und Gesellschaft. Pursuing her doctoral dissertation “Revolution im Stall: Landwirtschaftliche Tierhaltung in Deutschland, 1950–1980” she is concerned with moral and economy, particularly around animals, farming, food production and eating. More broadly, she is interested in changing societies in modern times, documented also by her previous studies in the fields of history of migration (M.A., 2012) and democratic theory (M.Sc., 2014). Together with Norman Aselmeyer she is currently coediting the volume “The History of Non-Eating; Abstinence, Avoidance, and Abnegation in the Modern Age” [Beiheft der HZ 73/Munich: DeGruyter 2018].

Articles by the author:

Cypork: German Bodies and Designing Pigs for Consumption

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Women at the Butcher’s The German weekly newsreel, the Ufa-Wochenschau, opened their program on 23 November, 1962 with a sequence from a West German butcher’s shop, portraying a group of women shopping. Examining the meat at display, they all shook their heads expressing their dissatisfaction with what was available: “That’s too fat! No thanks, that’s too fat!“ they chorused, shaking their heads. Their voices marked an ultimate turning point in the relationship between food and health in modern German history. For the first time changes in the labor market and the growth of prosperity led to worries about excess in society as a whole in the 1960s, instead of the previously known worries about scarcity. Less physical work, less need…

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