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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 / Melanie Joy.

Joy, Melanie. (Author).

Summary:

Examines the rationalizations used by humans to condone the slaying of certain animals for food and clothing, describing inhumane practices of animal slaughter, healths risks, and myths about meat eating.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1573244619
  • ISBN: 9781573244619
  • Physical Description: 204 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Conari Press, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-195) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1 To Love or to Eat? 11 -- 2 Carnism: "It's Just the Way Things Are" 23 -- 3 Way Things Really Are 37 -- 4 Collateral Damage: The Other Casualties of Carnism 73 -- 5 Mythology of Meat: Justifying Carnism 95 -- 6 Through the Carnistic Looking Glass: Internalized Carnism 115 -- 7 Bearing Witness: From Carnism to Compassion 135.
Subject:
Animals > Psychological aspects.
Food preferences.
Meat > Psychological aspects.
Meat > Social aspects.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Rutherford County Library System.

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