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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.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781573244619
- ISBN: 1573244619
- ISBN: 9781573245050
- ISBN: 1573245054
- Physical Description: 204 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: San Francisco : Conari Press, 2010.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-195) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Meat > Psychological aspects. Animals > Psychological aspects. Meat > Social aspects. Food preferences. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at SPARK Libraries. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Lackawanna County Library System.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abington Community Library | 641.3 JOY (Text) | 50687011591784 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
