TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joy, Melanie
TI  - Why we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows
SN  - 9781573245050
PY  - 2010///
CY  - 
PB  - Conari Press
KW  - TX HOME ECONOMICS
KW  - Meat
KW  -  Psychological aspects
KW  - Animals aspects
KW  - Meat Social aspects
KW  - Food of animal origin Moral and ethical animals preferences
N1  - 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--
N2  - 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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