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Why we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows : an introduction to carnism : the belief system that enables us to eat some animals and not others
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Why we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows : an introduction to carnism : the belief system that enables us to eat some animals and not others

Author: Melanie Joy
Publisher: San Francisco : Conari Press, 2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This groundbreaking work explores the psychology of carnism. Our willingness to eat animals--and only some animals at that--says social psychologist and professor Melanie Joy, is enabled only through blocking out what we know--about their capacity for consciousness and their ability to feel pain: about the inhumane husbandry practiced all over the world simply to satisfy our taste for foods we don't need in our  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Melanie Joy
ISBN: 9781573244619 1573244619
OCLC Number: 316832932
Description: 204 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: To love or to eat? --
Carnism: It's just the way things are --
The way things really are --
Collateral damage: the other casualties of carnism --
The mythology of meat : Justifying carnism --
Through the carnistic looking glass : Internalized carnism --
Bearing witness : From carnism to compassion.
Responsibility: Melanie Joy.

Abstract:

This groundbreaking work explores the psychology of carnism. Our willingness to eat animals--and only some animals at that--says social psychologist and professor Melanie Joy, is enabled only through blocking out what we know--about their capacity for consciousness and their ability to feel pain: about the inhumane husbandry practiced all over the world simply to satisfy our taste for foods we don't need in our diet: about the health risks involved in eating flesh of any kind; and on and on. In other words, we continue to eat meat and fish only out of a seemingly intransigent denial.
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