Excerpted from a review of Dr. Melanie Joy’s Book by Kelly Garbato at Easy Vegan. Carnism, Joy posits, is the invisible belief system (or ideology) that underlies our unthinking consumption of “meat.” We have so internalized this behavior – “meat”-eating – that we do not even recognize it as a choice, but rather blindly accept [...]
…Often, we refer to carnists as “omnivores,” “carnivores,” or “meat eaters.” But these labels are inaccurate and likely detrimental to animal rights; they reinforce the assumptions that eating animals is natural and normal, two of the most entrenched and compelling myths used to justify carnism. The terms “omnivore” and “carnivore” describe one’s physiological disposition, rather [...]
“…I mean, there are so many mortifying things in our culture and society. But that [killing animals for food] certainly is one of the worst and people ignore it the most because they think that animals don’t matter…I feel a lot for these animals. Just the thought is really upsetting…I’m crying.” While many [readers] likely [...]
Speciesism is a ubiquitous ideology in which countless nonhuman beings are sacrificed to serve human ends (Singer, 1990). Moreover, the system may well be supported by a web of deleterious psychosocial processes (Arluke & Sanders, 1996) and, as such, can be detrimental to humans as well as nonhumans. Psychology, as the field that seeks to [...]