Why we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows - Conari Press, 2010 - 204 p. ; 23 cm

an introduction to carnism : the belief system that enables us to eat some animals and not others

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--

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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