Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear ..., Melanie Joy, PhD
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear ..., Melanie Joy, PhD
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Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
An Introduction to Carnism, 10th Anniversary Edition

Author: Melanie Joy, PhD, Yuval Noah Harari

Narrator: Heather Wynne

Unabridged: 5 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/01/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Animals

Synopsis

An Introduction to Carnism

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows offers an absorbing look at what social psychologist Melanie Joy calls carnism, the belief system that conditions us to eat certain animals when we would never dream of eating others. Carnism causes extensive animal suffering and global injustice, and it drives us to act against our own interests and the interests of others without fully realizing what we are doing. Becoming aware of what carnism is and how it functions is vital to personal empowerment and social transformation, as it enables us to make our food choices more freely—because without awareness, there is no free choice.

About Melanie Joy, PhD

Melanie Joy, PhD, is a Harvard-educated psychologist, celebrated speaker, organizational consultant, and relationship coach. Dr. Joy has given talks and trainings on six continents and in forty countries, and her work has been featured in major media outlets around the world, including the BBC, NPR, ABC Australia, Spiegel, and the New York Times. Dr. Joy is the eighth recipient of the Ahimsa Award. She is also the founding president of Beyond Carnism and the cofounder of ProVeg International.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs

I’ve been vegan for over a decade, and I’ve read a lot of arguments for and against the lifestyle choice. There’s a lot of information (and misinformation) out there and it’s a very contentious and heated subject. Even now, as I write this, I expect to get trolled in the comments section or be hit w......more

Goodreads review by Lis

Melanie Joy is the leading researcher in the field of carnism, a field she invented. If that sounds a tad catty, sorry, but I'm laboring under the burden of having actually read her book. Dr. Joy purports to give us a thoroughly researched discussion of the psychology of why we eat meat, and why we e......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

As I read this book, I vacillated between saying to myself “well, duh!” and then thinking it was an exceptional book, one where this subject has never been written about before in this exact way. It’s a slim book but it contains a lot of food for thought. I felt as though I were back in a college psy......more

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