Why we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows

Contributor(s):

Joy, Melanie [Author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Conari Press, 2010Description: 204 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781573245050

Subject(s):

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--

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	TBS Barcelona Libre acceso	TX371 JOY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B02299

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