How long does it take to read Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows?
Melanie Joy
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows by Melanie Joy takes about 3 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 44 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2010. 204 pages, about 56,100 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This groundbreaking work explores the psychology of carnism. Our willingness to eat animals--and only some animals at that--says social psychologist and professor Melanie Joy, is enabled only through blocking out what we know--about their capacity for consciousness and their ability to feel pain: about the inhumane husbandry practiced all over the world simply to satisfy our taste for foods we don't need in our diet: about the health risks involved in eating flesh of any kind; and on and on. In other words, we continue to eat meat and fish only out of a seemingly intransigent denial.
Subjects: Social aspects, Food preferences, Animals, Meat, Psychological aspects, Food, psychological aspects
