In
Episode #178 we hear from Harvard trained Psychologist
Dr Melanie Joy on food ideology and speciesism. This is a condensed throwback of a
previous episode we recorded together.
Key things covered in this episode:
- What lead Melanie to studying psychology and veganism
- Learning how to communicate the vegan message
- Cognitive dissonance and why people may react negatively to the vegan message
- What is carnism and the system that disconnects us from our food
- The difficulty of communicating the vegan message
- Vegan allies and using psychology to open the conversation to non-vegans
- The potential harm of using comparisons of slavery, the holocaust & rape
- How to approach people in a way that they will be receptive to the message
- Vegans using shaming techniques is demotivating
- Moral superiority in vegans and privilege
- Trauma narratives and toxic moral perfectionism
- Finding a healthy process of communicating
- Focusing on feeding compassion
- The rapid growth of the vegan movement
Resources:
Melanie's Book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism, 10th Anniversary Edition
The Vegan Matrix - another book written by Melanie exploring what she believes is a serious problem with the vegan movement: unexamined privilege.
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Simon Hill, Nutritionist, Sports Physiotherapist
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