Meaning of carnism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The human ideology that supports the slaughter of certain animals and the consumption of their meat or other products (leather from skin, etc).
   uncountable
2. The practice of eating animal meat or using animal products (leather, etc).
   uncountable

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Examples

“Mass terms like⟳ “meat,” “hamburger,” and “leather” used instead of “dead animal,” “cow,” or “skin” encourage⟳ consumers to forget⟳ that they are eating or using a dead animal. ... The commercial influence⟳ of a pervasive and legalized meat industry is strong, which may account for why speciesism and the ideology of carnism are cultural values that Freeman found national news tends to impose⟳ on audiences, naturalizing and legitimizing the exploitation of farmed animals.”

“Francophobia and anti-popery were coupled with and then merged into this ideology of carnism. As Hogarth historian Jenny Uglow writes: '[t]he oozing red meat, the feasts and freedoms— like⟳ the wearing of leather shoes instead of wooden clogs—set⟳ the English against the feeble, starving peasants of the Continent'.”

“Now we need⟳ a universal consensus about standards of decency toward ecosystems, individuals from other species, and Earth. We cannot do this unless we end⟳ carnism.”

“So violent systems such as carnism need⟳ to use⟳ a set⟳ of psychological and social defense mechanisms so that humane people participate⟳ in inhumane practices without fully realizing what they are doing. The primary defense of carnism is […]”

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