Species.

Species.

Unite.

Unite.

Let's say that you eat meat and you're sitting down and you're biting into a juicy hamburger.

And your dining companion turns to and says, Elizabeth, you know,

that hamburger is actually not made from beef. It's made from golden retrievers.

Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novogratz. This is Species Unite.

Dr. Melanie Joy is a psychologist, author, and the person who gave a name to something that most of us have been living with our whole lives without noticing.

She coined the term carnism, the invisible belief system that conditions us to eat

certain animals, but not others. And her best-selling book, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear

Cows, has been asking people to question that conditioning for over a decade. In this conversation,

we talk about how carnism works,

why even compassionate people resist the information

and what it actually takes to change,

not just what we eat,

but how we relate to each other and ourselves.

It's a conversation that starts with food

and ends with something much bigger.

Melanie, welcome back. It's great to have you back.

Thank you so much. It's a pleasure.

So we both can't remember when the last time you were on was, but I know it was years ago.

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