Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

In this video, Dr. Joy explains why it is impossible to make our food choices freely without awareness and she also introduces shocking practices in the slaughterhouses.
Melanie Joy, PhD and Harvard-educated psychologist and an international speaker, introduces her perspective backed up by two-decades in research contributing thus to understand better the pain, both human and animal and, therefore, arises the need for compassion.
Searching to bring awareness to a larger proportion of society, she uncovers why we believe in what we believe and why we justify the harm of the dominant carnism system as something normal, natural and necessary.
She is the eighth recipient of the Ahimsa Award (previously given to Nelson Mandela and Dalai Lama) for her work on global nonviolence and is the author of the award-winning book "Why we Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows".

Every single choice does matter and has an impact in your life and the life of other living beings.