Melanie Joy, Ph.D. is a psychologist, professor, and author. She teaches psychology and sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and is the leading researcher on carnism, the ideology of meat production and consumption. She is the author of Strategic Action for Animals: A Handbook on Strategic Movement Building, Organizing, and Activism for Animal Liberation.
""Why We Love Dogs"... is an altogether remarkable book that could
transform the way society feels about eating animals. You cannot
read this book without learning something new and without pondering
your relation to the animal world. This is a profound and deeply
satisfying book that is destined to become a classic." --Jeffrey
Moussaieff Masson, author of the best-selling "When Elephants
Weep", "Dogs Never Lie about Love", "The Pig Who Sang to the Moon",
and "The Face on Your Plate"
"A thoughtful book full of substance and style. It should be
required reading." --Kathy Freston, author of "The New York Times"
bestselling "Quantum Wellness"
"Institutionalized, socially sanctioned violence on an
unprecedented scale causes the needless suffering of billions of
animals every year. In her groundbreaking book, Melanie Joy shakes
up the completely arbitrary thinking that enables people to, at the
same time, treat some animals as friends and look the other way
while others are ruthlessly exploited as commodities." --Gene Baur,
president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary and author of "Farm
Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food"
"One of the most thought-provoking books in decades. The
realization that we've been conditioned throughout our entire lives
to think and act a certain way toward animals, and that we've been
so disconnected from ourselves and our fellow beings, gives us a
chance to make our choices freely." --Heather Mills
"This eye-opening book makes us question what we really mean when
we say we love animals. Anyone who has ever loved a dog or a cat or
a hamster or a bird will find abundant food for thought here."
--John Robbins, author of "Diet for a New America", "The Food
Revolution", and "Healthy at 100"
"Through the use of narrative, often bordering on biography, the
arguments being put forth by Joy are very well exemplified. The
images conjured are ever so vivid that it would be difficult to
stop once one starts reading it. The reader is immediately and
often unknowingly drawn on. The volume is extremely readable,
theory and jargon free as it is. However, that is not to say that
the analysis is nonscientific or arbitrary. Rather, the arguments
are firmly anchored to sound psychological theorization. People
from all walks of life, across age and educational backgrounds
would find this book immensely interesting. People advocating
vegetarianism, professors and students of psychology, scholars from
other areas of social science, and even public administrators in
food departments would gain considerably from this extremely well
written book." --Rita Agrawal, PhD, co-author, "Applied Social
Psychology: A Global Perspective"
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