Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
This groundbreaking work, voted one of the top ten books of 2010 by VegNews Magazine, offers an absorbing look at why and how humans can so wholeheartedly devote themselves to certain animals and then allow others to suffer needlessly, especially those slaughtered for consumption.Social psychologist Melanie Joy explores the many ways we numb ourselves and disconnect from our natural empathy for farmed animals She coins the term carnism to describe the belief system that has conditioned us to eat certain animals and not others.In Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, Joy investigates factory farming, exposing how cruelly animals are treated, the hazards meat packing workers face, and the environmental impact of raising 10 billion animals for food each year Controversial and challenging, this book will change the way you think about food forever. Best Download Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows by Melanie Joy For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr 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 psychology class because my mind was being stimulated in just the way it was during some of those classes It s written in a very reader friendly manner and even though there s a lot of terminology that 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 psychology class because my mind was being stimulated in just the way it was during some of those classes It s written in a very reader friendly manner and even though there s a lot of terminology that might not be familiar to all readers, it doesn t use a lot of jargon, it s written so that any unfamiliar words will have a clear meaning with the reading of them Melanie Joy has coined the word carnism and I really like that the word is now in the vernacular.The book is definitely written for and directed at the carnists, the vas...This book changed my life Though I was familiar with many of the facts presented in the book the perils of factory farming, etc , I had no idea just how much cruelty and torture is endured by most of the animals who become our meat Nor did I have any clue how intelligent and sensitive many livestock animals really are especially pigs As an animal lover, and a meat lover, I felt very conflicted while reading But the author effectively points out the absurdity of our cultural attitudes t This book changed my life Though I was familiar with many of the facts presented in the book the perils of factory farming, etc , I had no idea just how much cruelty and torture is endured by most of the animals who become our meat Nor did I have any clue how intelligent and sensitive many livestock animals really are especially pigs As an animal lover, and a meat lover, I felt very conflicted while reading But the author effectively points out the absurdity of o...This book is kind of a mess It s filled with baseless generalizations, poorly cited data, and spends most of its length talking not about what the title promises, but rather an attack on industrialized animal agriculture The book starts out with a thought experiment you re at a dinner party, when the host suddenly reveals the delicious stew you re eating is made of dog Clearly, you are ...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 eat some animals and not other animals This book has gotten a lot of praise, for it s fairness and respectful attitude towards people who eat meat I m honestly mystified by that praise The assumptio 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 ...This is an enlightening book for anyone interested in the psychological and social mechanisms that behind certain food choices It s based on the author s doctoral research in psychology but is highly readable and engaging Melanie Joy coined the term carnism to describe the belief system that sees eating certain animals as ethical and appropriate She describes the elaborate system that has evolved to keep consumers from actually examining their food choices As long as we care about animal su This is an enlightening book for anyone interested in the psychological and social mechanisms that behind certain food choices It s based on the author s doctoral research in psychology but is highly readable and engaging Melanie Joy coined the term carnism to describe the belief system that sees eating certain animals as ethical and appropriate She describes the elaborate system that has evolved to keep consumers from actually examining their food choices As long as we care about animal suffering and also continue to eat animals, she says, our schema will distort our perceptions of animals and the meat we eat so that we can feel comfortable enough to consume them So why has vegetarianism, widely accepted as a belief system, been named while carnism has not One reason is that carnism is the norm in our society It s mainstream which is simply a way of describing an ideology that is so widespread and entrenched that...When I read non fiction, I read it very differently from reading fiction And when I read a book like this about animal ethics, about vegetarianism and how to stop eating meat, I try to read it very carefully and I try keep my emotions out of it which is very hard when reading about how we treat animals, even though this is a decent book without a lot of emotional blackmailing.I ll just mention before anybody reads further, that there will be a few graphic details in the review below so be for When I read non fiction, I read it very differently from reading fiction And when I read a book like this about animal ethics, about vegetarianism and how to stop eating meat, I try to read it very carefully and I try keep my emotions out of it which is very hard when reading about how we treat animals, even though this is a decent book without a lot of emotional blackmailing.I ll just mention before anybody reads further, that there will be a few graphic details in the review below so be forewarned.Melanie Joy s point with this book is to try and investigate and explain why we are comfortable eating some animals and not others Why do most of us feel okay with eating a cow but not a dog Why do we feel so bad ...Dr Melanie Joy is a psychologist and this book is about the psychology of using animals for food Her main message is that using animals for food involves holding cultural beliefs that many people are not aware of The book is intelligent and respectful to all types of people It illuminates why it is often hard for people to give up using animals for food despite the strongly negative ethical, health and environmental consequences involved In this respect I think it is very useful for people Dr Melanie Joy is a psychologist and this book is about the psychology of using animals for food Her main message is that using animals for food involves holding cult...This book portrays itself as a book on the psychology behind which animals we eat and which we don t It did that for about two chapters Then it launched into a liberal diatribe on the evils of the meat industry in the U.S I felt tricked And sickened Supposedly, the book evolved from her Ph.D dissertation in psychology If a work l...In Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows An Introduction to Carnism, vegetarian animal rights advocate Melanie Joy writes return return We have a schema for every subject, including animals An animal can be classified, for instance, as prey, predator, pest, pet, or food How we classify an animal, in turn, determines how we relate to it whether we hunt it, flee from it, exterminate it, love it, or eat it Some overlap can occur between categories an animal can be prey and food , but wh In Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows An Introduction to Carnism, vegetarian animal rights advocate Melanie Joy writes return return We have a schema for every subject, including animals An animal can be classified, for instance, as prey, predator, pest, pet, or food How we classify an animal, in turn, determines how we relate to it whether we hunt it, flee from it, exterminate it, love it, or eat it Some overlap can occur between categories an animal can be prey and food , but when it comes to meat, most animals are either food, or not food In other words, we have a schema that classifies animals as edible or inedible return return While I wish Joy would have said prey, predator, pest, pet, or protein to complete the alliteration and perhaps even added ...This is a simple, straightforward answer to the question implied by the title why do we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows It s about psychology, actually social psychology Melanie Joy actually is a social psychologist, and has used her expertise to focus in non technical language on a question that is not only baffling to a lot of people, but of great social relevance This is an ideal use of her gifts It s obvious to vegetarians that society s attitudes towards animals are ...
- English
- 02 September 2017 Melanie Joy
- Hardcover
- 204 pages
- 1573244619
- Melanie Joy
- Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows