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Carnism describes the belief system that eating meat is "normal, natural and necessary." The term was coined by social psychologist Melanie Joy in 2001 and developed in her book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism (2010). Carnism, according to Joy, is a dominant, yet invisible, paradigm. Anthropologist Margo DeMello calls it the "unquestioned default."

Cultural studies researchers Carrie Packwood-Freeman and Oana Leventi Perez offer as an illustration of carnism the National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation, where the American president pardons a symbolic turkey at Thanksgiving.

See also

• Ethics of eating meat

References

1. ^ Carrie Packwood-Freeman, Oana Leventi Perez, "Pardon Your Turkey and Eat Him Too," in Joshua Frye, Michael S. Bruner (eds.), The Rhetoric of Food: Discourse, Materiality, and Power, Routledge, 2012, p. 103ff.
2. Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism, Conari Press, 2009, p. 30.
3. Margo DeMello, Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies, Columbia University Press, 2012, p. 136.

External links

• Beyond Carnism
• Melanie Joy discusses carnism, TED talk, 2015.

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