carnophobia

Unlike the ascetic idealists Emerson and Thoreau, Melville abandoned Pauline-Christian carnophobia and accepted man's body as part of his essential being.

1987 July 1, Tetsumaro Hayashi, Herman Melville: research opportunities and dissertation abstracts, McFarland & Co Inc, →ISBN

Such carnophobia aside, the aliens were surely right to be puzzled. Thinking meat, dreaming meat, conscious meat, meat that understands. It seems unlikely, to say the least.

2016, Andy Clark, Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page xiv

‘He seems to have an aversion to telling the truth.’ ‘And an aversion to meat so he told me when I finally caught up with him.’ ‘Eh?’ ‘He suffers from Carnophobia. The fear of meat.’ ‘You're kidding?’ ‘No. I looked it up. It exists all right but whether Nugent really suffers from it is another matter. I went to his flat. Had the devil of a job getting him to come to the door, but when I bellowed through the letterbox and asked him to look through the window he recognized me and let me in.’

2015 December 20, Pauline Rowson, Fatal Catch: An Andy Horton Police Procedural, volume 12, Severn House Publishers Ltd, →ISBN