This isn't the case for veganism which can be seen as the ideological opposite of carnism.

对于和肉食主义完全相反的“素食主义”来说，这一切则截然不同。

What makes understanding carnism important to me is that it creates a discussion where we once thought there was none.

对我来说，理解肉食主义的重要意义在于它引发了一场我们本来没有意识到的讨论。

And yet I feel that understanding and confronting carnism is especially relevant today as its practices are increasingly cruel and at times flat-out horrifying.

但我觉得理解和对抗食肉主义在今天尤为重要，因为现代畜牧手段越来越残忍和令人恐惧。

This is because carnism is legalized in our formal institutions and normalized in our culture through, for example, advertisements, historical traditions, and movies and television.

这是因为肉食主义在我们的正式制度中被合法化了，并融入了我们的文化，比如广告、习俗、电影和电视。

She points out that although we may think we're consuming animals out of necessity, we're actually doing it out of ideology, an ideology called carnism.

她指出，我们以为吃动物是出于“必需”，但其实我们是出于“主观想法”，这个主观想法就叫做“肉食主义”。

It is a clear example of the power of strongly embedded ideologies like carnism that make it so dangerously easy for us to abandon morality for convenience.

这是证明已被默认的观念有多么强大的明显例子，像肉食主义这样的观念让我们因便利而放弃道德变的无比容易。

Aside from the more general issue with our capacity for empathy, I want to focus on an issue that is more directly related to animals and animal consumption, and that is the issue of carnism.

抛开人类的同理心这种大命题，我想聚焦在食用动物方面这种具体问题上，也就是“肉食主义”的问题。