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Why we love dogs, eat pigs and wear cows

autorka: Melanie Joy (Melanie Joy is a social psychologist, professor, author, and personal/relationship coach.)
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wywiad z autorką na advocacy.britannica.com
inny wywiad z autorką na blogu Vegan Sanctuary
Melanie Joy wprowadza termin "carnism":
My book is written for a popular audience, but it is based on my doctoral research on the psychology of eating meat. I was interested in the mentality that enables humane people to support inhumane practices without realizing what they’re doing. I interviewed vegans, vegetarians, meat eaters, meat cutters, and butchers about their experience eating and/or working with meat.
What I found was that all of my participants, without exception, blocked their empathy and awareness toward animals in order to eat or butcher them. And this blocking, or “psychic numbing,” was made up of a set of defense mechanisms and was an automatic, unconscious process. I realized that there was something much larger at work than simply my participants’ individual attitudes toward eating meat.
What I concluded was that the very same mechanisms of psychic numbing that enable us to carry out violence toward other humans enable us to carry out violence toward other animals. And such widespread psychic numbing is only possible within a widespread belief system, or ideology. This ideology is what I came to call carnism.
Carnism is essentially the opposite of vegetarianism or veganism. The invisibility of carnism is why eating animals is seen as a given rather than a choice, why we assume it’s only vegans and vegetarians who bring their beliefs to the dinner table. But when eating meat is not a necessity for survival, it is a choice—and choices always stem from beliefs.