Why we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows 

 -  Conari Press,  2010 
 - 204 p. ; 23 cm 
<br/><br/> an introduction to carnism : the belief system that enables us to eat some animals and not others 
<br/><br/>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-- 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781573245050 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>TX HOME ECONOMICS
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Meat -- Psychological aspects<br/>Animals aspects<br/>Meat Social aspects<br/>Food of animal origin Moral and ethical animals preferences<br/>