Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows : An Introduction to Carnism (Paperback)

from adrndack

Being a vegetarian for 20 years, I was looking forward to Melanie Joy, PhD's book, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows and her concept of carnism. In the book she writes: "We don't see meat eating as we do vegetarianism-as a choice, based on a set of assumptions about animals, our world and ...

from monzrocks

A brief book about animal cruelty and exploitation that happens for meat to reach our plates. There is a lot of information about the slaughtering process, which is painful to read. Personally, I already eschew animal products, but her aim is definitely to get others to do the same. Still, this b...

from singer.phillip

The beginning of Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows introduces a concept that Dr. Melanie Joy uses throughout the book. It is a thought experiment of sitting down to a meal and enjoying a nice stew with friends when you ask what kind of meat the chef used. The response is that it is golden...

from TheNovelWorld

Between the reviews here, Goodreads and the first 3 chapters of the book that I read, I decided to abandon this book. Joy's writing is rambling and repetitive. She thrives on scare tactics and doesn't provide any alternatives to the methods she denounces. This is not a well-written book, and it d...

from juliayoung

Before I start, let me declare my vegetarianism. Despite my inclination to be sympathetic toward animals, I found Joy's book to be naive in the extreme. I was expecting a book on the cultural reasons for why Americans have differing attitudes toward consuming different animals, and, while she has...