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020 _a9781573245050
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245 0 _aWhy we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows
260 _a
_bConari Press,
_c2010
300 _a204 p. ; 23 cm
500 _aan introduction to carnism : the belief system that enables us to eat some animals and not others
505 _aTo love or to eat?
_rCarnism: It's just the way things are--
_rThe way things really are--
_rCollateral damage: the other casualties of carnism--
_rThe mythology of meat : Justifying carnism--
_rThrough the carnistic looking glass : Internalized carnism--
_rBearing witness : From carnism to compassion--
520 _aThis 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
590 _bIncludes bibliographical references (p. [173]-195) and index
630 _aTX HOME ECONOMICS
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650 _aMeat
_x Psychological aspects
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650 _aAnimals aspects
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650 _aMeat Social aspects
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650 _aFood of animal origin Moral and ethical animals preferences
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650 _a
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700 _aJoy, Melanie
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912 _a2010-01-01
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953 _d2019-04-30 11:27:56
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