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Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

By: Melanie Joy PhD, Yuval Noah Harari - foreword
Narrated by: Heather Wynne
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Publisher's Summary

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.

©2010, 2011, 2020 Melanie Joy, PhD; Foreword copyright 2020 by Yuval Noah Harari (P)2020 Tantor

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Eye opener

Great concepts. A real eye opener. But narrator sounded like a school girl in a debate. Struggled to keep listening. Too much repetion as well. Overall however, the idea was clear. Certainly reignited my feelings towards farm animals and how big business runs.

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Great book!

Very interesting book with many mindblowing facts. Easy to listen and covering many areas of the animal cruelty.

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Must read

Well researched and very informative. Uses facts and statistics rather than sensationalism to expose the suffering of billions of animals caused by modern farming.

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sorry i got this book

as i know the author i thought it's going to talk more about history and All the book was vegan propaganda

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Degenerates

Great starting chapters and introduction - well considered and compulsive. Unfortunately degenerates into a morass of unbalanced sensationalism which detracts from the overall message.

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