8 Best philosophy books like Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows by Melanie Joy

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Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

By: Melanie Joy

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An Introduction to Carnism. “An important and groundbreaking contribution to the struggle for th…

"We are the collateral damage of carnism; we pay for it with our health, our environment, and our taxes - $7.64 billion a year, to be exact."

-Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

"We are the collateral damage of carnism; we pay for it with our health, our environment, and our taxes - $7.64 billion a year, to be exact."

-Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

"Violent ideologies follow their own logic, the logic that sustains the system - a convoluted logic that unravels when it, itself, is labeled."

-Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

"Violent ideologies follow their own logic, the logic that sustains the system - a convoluted logic that unravels when it, itself, is labeled."

-Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

If you liked the philosophy plot in Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows by Melanie Joy , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach

By: Tobias Leenaert

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this thought-provoking book, Tobias Leenaert leaves well-trodden animal advocacy paths and takes… read more

Similar categories in Tobias Leenaert's How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach book and Melanie Joy's Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

  • animals
  • philosophy
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • vegan
  • activism

2. Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth

By: John Robbins

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened the conscience of a nation. Since the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • food
  • vegan
  • health
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3. The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

By: Peter Singer , Jim Mason

3.93

Format: None pages,

Eating is about more than satisfying our hunger. It's also about the environment, social justice, p… read more

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  • health
  • philosophy
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • vegan
  • science
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4. Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

By: Garth Davis

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed surgeon specializing in weight loss delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the di… read more

Similar categories in Garth Davis's Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It book and Melanie Joy's Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

  • health
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • vegan
  • science

5. Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

By: Howard Jacobson , T. Colin Campbell

2.50

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine. Every apple… read more

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6. Eating Animals

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

4.12

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating… read more

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7. The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food

By: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

4.31

Format: 32 pages,

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8. Animal Liberation

By: Peter Singer

3.80

Format: 220 pages,

The Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work… read more

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9. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

By: Carol J. Adams

3.98

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

First published in 1990, The Sexual Politics of Meat is a landmark text in the ongoing debates abou… read more

Similar categories in Carol J. Adams's The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory book and Melanie Joy's Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

  • animals
  • philosophy
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • vegan
  • sociology
"Manhood is constructed in our culture, in part, by access to meat eating and control of other bodies."

-Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

"Equality isn’t an idea; it is a practice. We practice it when we don’t treat other people or other animals as objects."

-Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

"The story of meat follows a sacred typology: the birth of a God, the dismemberment of the god's body, and the god's resurrection."

-Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

"If the wartime killing of human beings is used to establish the legitimacy of meat eating, then challenging meat eating challenges a world at war."

-Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

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10. La mala costumbre

By: Alana S. Portero

4.55

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more

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"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."

-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre

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11. Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

By: Melanie Joy

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An Introduction to Carnism. “An important and groundbreaking contribution to the struggle for th… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Joy's Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows book and Melanie Joy's Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

  • health
  • animals
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • vegan
  • activism
  • sociology
  • science
"We are the collateral damage of carnism; we pay for it with our health, our environment, and our taxes - $7.64 billion a year, to be exact."

-Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

"Violent ideologies follow their own logic, the logic that sustains the system - a convoluted logic that unravels when it, itself, is labeled."

-Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

"Why, exactly, is empathy "integral to our sense of self," and how might blocking our empathy toward certain species impact our capacity for empathy in general?"

-Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

"To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering."

-Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

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12. Otaberra

By: Elisa Victoria

3.79

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Algo pasó en 1989. Renata vuelve a ese año una y otra vez. El presente para ella no existe. El tiem… read more

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13. El descontento

By: Beatriz Serrano

4.09

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Lo único peor que no tener empleo es tenerlo. Una novela afilada y salvaje sobre lo que queda de no… read more

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14. This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

By: Ed Winters

4.64

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in. Our choices ca… read more

Similar categories in Ed Winters's This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You) book and Melanie Joy's Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

  • health
  • animals
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • vegan
  • science
"Why do dairy farmers deserve public support but oat farmers who produce oat milk don't?"

-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

"We have destroyed millions of years of evolution in the blink of an eye, quite literally bulldozing our way around this finite planet."

-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

"It is ironic that we believe that empathy and complex emotions only really exist in humans but we then fail to empathize with the animals who suffer at our hands."

-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

"Furthermore, it seems back to front to worry about the extinction of animals who have been selectively bred and don't exist naturally to begin with when our current system of animal agriculture is th…"

-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

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15. The Joyful Vegan: How to Stay Vegan in a World That Wants You to Eat Meat, Dairy, and Eggs

By: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Finding plant-based recipes? Easy. Dealing with the social, cultural, and emotional aspects of bein… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Patrick-Goudreau's The Joyful Vegan: How to Stay Vegan in a World That Wants You to Eat Meat, Dairy, and Eggs book and Melanie Joy's Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

  • health
  • animals
  • philosophy
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • vegan
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16. How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)

By: Ed Winters

4.65

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

How to Argue With a Meat Eater (and Win Every Time) is an essential companions for all vegans helpi… read more

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  • health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • vegan
  • science
"Exploring the arguments against something can often increase our conviction that we are right."

-Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)

"The truth is, animal products are tasty. However taste does not provide a moral justification for what we do to animals, so vegans go vegan because they recognise that life is more important than tas…"

-Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)

"Making positive choices in our lives is not about believing ourselves to be the sole person who can change something in its entirety, but instead recognising that we have a responsibility to play our…"

-Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)

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17. Animal Languages

By: Eva Meijer

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How animals speak to each other and to humans, from chimpanzees who learn sign language to dogs who… read more

Similar categories in Eva Meijer's Animal Languages book and Melanie Joy's Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • science
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18. Camino a un mundo vegano

By: Carlota Bruna

4.28

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Carlota Bruna ha cautivado las redes llevando el veganismo un paso más allá. Tomar conciencia d… read more

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  • vegan
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19. La era del veganismo

By: Ibai Vegan

4.21

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Un manifiesto sobre veganismo y contra el maltrato animal de @ibaivegan, el divulgador y activista … read more

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  • vegan
Cover of Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society by Daniel   Chandler

20. Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

By: Daniel Chandler

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor, ma… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Chandler's Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society book and Melanie Joy's Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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21. Think like a Vegan: What everyone can learn from vegan ethics

By: Emilia A. Leese

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

According to the latest figures, the number of vegans in the UK has more than quadrupled since 2014… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • vegan
  • animals

12 Best nonfiction books like Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows by Melanie Joy

Transform Your Habits

How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach

Tobias Leenaert

3.66

Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth

John Robbins

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

Peter Singer , Jim Mason

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

Garth Davis

3.32

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6 Best nutrition books like This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You) by Ed Winters

Transform Your Habits

Plant-Based on a Budget: Delicious Vegan Recipes for Under $30 a Week, in Less Than 30 Minutes a Meal

Toni Okamoto

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Proof is in the Plants

Simon Hill

4.60

Transform Your Habits

How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older

Michael Greger

4.29

Transform Your Habits

This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

Ed Winters

4.64

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