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Reddit mentions of Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
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This is an excellent book that answers your question perfectly.
Plants are not sentient. They are not aware, they do not enjoy their lives, they do not experience pain, they do not experience distress. You know this.
Comparing humans and animals makes sense -- we share several characteristics, as listed above. We share one characteristic with plants: we are both alive. Life has never been mentioned as the requirement for ethical consideration. The line is drawn, logically, at sentience. We do not consider it murder to take a non-sentient human off of life support, for example.
You say that you respect vegans and vegetarians for their choice, but it seems that you don't even understand their choice. Why don't you read a book so you can respect us more convincingly? I'd recommend this one.
I've read several pro-meat books without gaining respect for the authors, but let me know if you also have a tip on a good book.
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
>In her groundbreaking new book, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, Melanie Joy explores the invisible system that shapes our perception of the meat we eat, so that we love some animals and eat others without knowing why. She calls this system carnism. Carnism is the belief system, or ideology, that allows us to selectively choose which animals become our meat, and it is sustained by complex psychological and social mechanisms. Like other "isms" (racism, ageism, etc.), carnism is most harmful when it is unrecognized and unacknowledged. Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows names and explains this phenomenon and offers it up for examination. Unlike the many books that explain why we shouldn't eat meat, Joy's book explains why we do eat meat -- and thus how we can make more informed choices as citizens and consumers.
(I have not actually read the book, but I was introduced to the term when Gever Tulley took it and applied the same concepts to danger to form Dangerism )