33 Quotes by Melanie Joy

Without awareness, there is no free choice.

Educating yourself does not mean that you were stupid in the first place; it means that you are intelligent enough to know that there is plenty left to learn.

Only with awareness of carnism can we reclaim our freedom of choice; without awareness, there is no free choice.

Sir Paul McCartney once claimed that if slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. He believed that if we knew the truth about meat production, we’d be unable to continue eating animals. Yet on some level we do know the truth. We know that meat production is a messy business, but we choose not to know just how messy it is. We know that meat comes from an animal, but we choose not to connect the dots.

When an invisible ideology guides our beliefs and behaviors, we become casualties of a system that has stolen our freedom to think for ourselves and to act accordingly.

Sir Paul McCartney once claimed that if slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. – Aldous Huxley.

We send one species to the butcher and give our love and kindness to another apparently for no reason other than because it’s the way things are. When our attitudes and behaviors toward animals are so inconsistent, and this inconsistency is so unexamined, we can safely say we have been fed absurdities.

We are the collateral damage of carnism; we pay for it with our health, our environment, and our taxes – $7.64 billion a year, to be exact.