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Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, And Wear Cows: An Introduction To Carnism
Why We Love Dogs Eat Pigs And Wear Cows An Introduction To Carnism Author:Melanie Joy PhD 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. The author takes Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, and Jonathan Safran Foer's well-trod route and investigates factory farming, exposing how cruelly the animals ar... more »e treated, the hazards that meatpacking workers face, and the environmental impact of raising 10 billion animals for food each year. She uses her factory farm–to–table narrative to buttress her real thesis: meat-eating or carnism, is an oppressive ideology as noxious as racism.« less