The face on your plate : the truth about food / Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.
2009
TX371 .M37 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
The face on your plate : the truth about food / Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780393065954
0393065952
0393065952
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2009.
Language
English
Description
288 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
TX371 .M37 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
641.3/06
Summary
This revelatory work brings together author Masson's intellectual, psychological, and emotional expertise over the last twenty years into the pivotal book of the food revolution. Masson shows how food affects our moral selves, our health, and the environment. He raises questions to make us conscious of the decisions behind every bite we take: What effect does eating animals have on our land, waters, even global warming? What are the results of farming practices--such as debeaking chickens and separating calves from their mothers--on animals and humans? How does the health of animals affect the health of our planet and our bodies? And uniquely, as a psychoanalyst, Masson investigates how denial keeps us from recognizing the animal at the end of our fork--think pig, not bacon--and how each culture distinguishes which animals are food and which are forbidden.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-264) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The gold standard is green
The only world we have
The lives they lead
The fishy business of aquaculture
Denial
A day in the life of a vegan.
The only world we have
The lives they lead
The fishy business of aquaculture
Denial
A day in the life of a vegan.