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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. |
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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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