Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Carnism

I agree it is self serving and has a personal agenda. Original article was very biased.

If there was a problem with the entry. Please can someone write a less biased entry. I donot think it is accepatble to remove the word or concept just because you believe that the entry was biased. I would still appreciate the right to know what is meant by the word 'Carnism' whether i agree with it or not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.172.117.194 (talk) 09:12, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello friends, greetings from Costa Rica!

"Carnism" is a concept that makes reference to the fact that society in general lives in denial of the animal suffering involved in the food we eat. I have seen that some people pretend to justify this deletion under a "technical" argument involving the Wikipedia guidelines for neologisms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NEO#NEO).

This supposedly "technical" reason is wrong; it pretends to justify the complete deletion of a real concept that is nowadays present in our language, but this absurd deletion can not be sustained on a technical ground anymore.

Now, who would have believed that Wikipedia would become such a backward and ideological tool of censorship? I always thought that Wikipedia was meant to be exactly the contrary. Of course anyone can disagree with the concept of carnism, but that is not the same as pretending that the concept simply doesn't exist!!!

Look here, other Internet resources such as the "Urban Dictionary" have provided definitions for this neologism, as you can read here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=carnism

As of today, the Urban Dictionary provides the following definition for the term "carnism": CARNISM: "The psychology that animals were put on this earth for the sole purpose of feeding and entertaining humans, and that they have no inherate value if they cannot be used by humans."

Example provided which illustrates the use of this term: "Most of the people in society who still eat meat have a mentality of carnism."

I have absolutely no doubt that the term "carnism" will eventually be included again on Wikipedia, as there is absolutely no technical reason to defend its deletion any more. In the future, it shall actually be fun to learn that the concept of "carnism" faced such a strong opposition for many years... the very attempt to "disappear" this concept from Wikipedia, is this not a sheer proof of carnism in our present society?

Thank you!

Danny Thomas (LoveCostaRica) Lovecostarica (talk) 16:00, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

To be clear, the term "carnism" is widely propagated not only in mainstream vegan and animal rights rhetoric, but in peer-reviewed literature that is not authored by Melanie Joy. Here is an example: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-10873-5_201. Enbrightenment (talk) 23:40, 4 March 2015 (UTC)