"Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows" offers an absorbing look at what social psychologist Melanie Joy calls carnism, the belief system that conditions us to eat certain animals when we would never dream of eating others. Carnism causes extensive animal suffering and global injustice, and it drives us to act against our own interests and the interests of others without fully realizing what we are doing. Becoming aware of what carnism is and how it functions is vital to personal empowerment and social transformation, as it enables us to make our food choices more freely—because without awareness, there is no free choice. https://www.melaniejoy.org/ #americanlitaudio #melaniejoy #audiobooks ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Tv5j4rC7Q

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, poet and practical philosopher renowned for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism as recorded in his masterwork, "Walden" (1854), and for having been a vigorous advocate of civil liberties, as evidenced in the essay “Civil Disobedience” (1849). From: 1. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 2. Solitude: 10:35 3. The Pond in Winter: 12:51 4. Spring: 14:07 5. Conclusion: 15:48 Text: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vMt15JsT8mCCrdaMy4JATWoumyNaM-Wz/view?usp=sharing #americanlitaudio #thoreau #audiobooks ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or2P7_5ygdg

Part I 2: 33:00 3: 51:24 4: 1:15:58 5: 1:38:34 6: 2:00:45 7: 2:20:37 8: 2:35:22 9: 3:02:09 10: 3:39:29 11: 4:04:00 Part II: 4:39:12 12: 4:39:15 13: 5:08:13 14: 5:28:25 15: 5:52:24 16: 6:21:10 17: 6:47:46 18: 7:21:01 19: 7:50:41 20: 8:16:46 21: 8:35:42 22: 8:50:25 23: 9:03:39 24: 9:32:17 25: 9:59:33 26: 10:09:24 27: 10:25:33 28: 10:43:09 29: 11:16:03 30: 11:27:01 31: 11:44:46

The writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins-Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. She is best known for her chilling depiction of a woman's mental breakdown in this unforgettable 1892 short story. Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm