Melanie Joy

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

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How can we love our pets and value kindness to animals generally, yet consume meat from corporations that severely abuse and slaughter 10 billion sentient creatures a year? Melanie Joy addresses this question and builds a compelling case for Veganism. She is the ultimate Veganista! In addition, Joy examines corporate animal agribusiness, and the millions of dollars they spend creating the fiction that these animals live outside on idyllic farms. Joy encourages readers to become informed about the violence and suffering bound up with mainstream food choices, and to begin reducing consumption of animal products. She offers insight into regaining empathy for suffering farmed animals as part of a vital process of personal and societal integration, wherein values, beliefs, and behaviour come into harmony. This is a book for Animal rights activists, those interested in healthy eating and local food and Vegans. Praise: "e;A thoughtful book.required reading for anyone interested in what we eat and why."e; -Kathy Freston, author of The New York Times-bestselling Vegenist "e;.an absorbing examination of why humans feel affection and compassion for certain animals but are callous to the suffering of others-especially those slaughtered for our consumption."e;-Publishers Weekly "e;an altogether remarkable book that could transform the way society feels about eating animals."e; Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of the best-selling When Elephants Weep
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217 printed pages
Publication year
2011
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  • winter babyshared an impression8 years ago
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    Highly recommend for everyone who thought about stop eating meat at least once in their life. This book touches every aspect of meat eating.

Quotes

  • Polinahas quoted5 years ago
    Most of us believe that eating meat is natural because humans have hunted and consumed animals for millennia. And it is true that we have been eating meat as part of an omnivorous diet for at least two million years (though for the majority of this time our diet was still primarily vegetarian). But to be fair, we must acknowledge that infanticide, murder, rape, and cannibalism are at least as old as meat eating, and are therefore arguably as “natural”—and yet we don't invoke the history of these acts as a justification for them. As with other acts of violence, when it comes to eating meat, we must differentiate between natural and justifiable.
  • Polinahas quoted6 years ago
    Another way norms keep us in line is by rewarding conformity and punishing us if we stray off course. Practically and socially, it is vastly easier to eat meat than not. Meat is readily available, while nonmeat alternatives must be actively sought out and may be hard to come by. For example, many restaurants still have no vegetarian options listed on the menu, and standard vegetarian fare, such as beans and rice, is frequently cooked with lard and chicken broth. And vegetarians often find themselves having to explain their choices, defend their diet, and apologize for inconveniencing others. They are stereotyped as hippies, eating disordered, and sometimes antihuman. They are called hypocrites if they wear leather, purists or extremists if they don't. They must live in a world where they are constantly bombarded by imagery and attitudes that offend their deepest sensibilities. It is easier by far to conform to the carnistic majority than eschew the path of least resistance.
  • Polinahas quoted6 years ago
    Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity

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