Dr. Melanie Joy on Carnism

Carnism: the psychology of eating meat
Summary: Imagine a plate of organic semolina vermicelli with basil sun dried tomato sauce and free range organic meat balls. Sounds delicious...until the hostess reveals her secret. The meat balls are made with Golden Retriever meat. Suddenly, it's disgusting. Who would do such a thing? That is how Dr. Melanie Joy thinks we all would feel about eating any animal, if we were consciously aware of some truths.

This is a beautiful talk by Dr. Joy about carnism. 

If you watch the video, please be aware of a horrifying section of images from factory farming. She'll warn you before she shows it. I could not watch past the first bit. Piglets and chicks were enough horror for me. Wow. I'm seriously still trying to distract myself from it. That part is awful but apparently necessary to shock me into realizing that I do empathize with the animal that became the bacon or hot dog on my plate. And I empathize with the person whose job it is to work on a factory farm like this. It's dehumanizing nearing torture. Disgusting. I almost don't even want to share the talk by Dr. Joy because of how disgusting that part is. Shocking well past Food, Inc or anything else I've seen.

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