Somewhere among Fast Food Nation as well as the Omnivore’s Problem, between eating at McDonald’s and killing a pig for dinner, there’s a dependence on an audiobook which will probe more deeply and offer greater understanding and insight in to the psychological factors that influence decisions in what we eat and just why – and how these choices affect our lives, animals’ lives, and the surroundings. With this revelatory work, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, the best-selling author of When Elephants Weep, will about THE FACIAL SKIN on Your Dish just that, displaying how food affects our moral selves, our health and wellness, and the surroundings. THE FACE AREA on Your Plate raises questions that make us conscious of the decisions behind every bite we take: How does the fitness of animals affect the fitness of our planet and of our anatomies? What effect will eating pets have on our land, on our waters, and even on global warming? What exactly are the outcomes of farming practices – debeaking chickens and separating calves using their moms – on pets and humans? As a psychoanalyst, Masson distinctively investigates how denial helps to keep us from recognizing the animal by the end of our fork – think pig, not bacon – and each culture’s differentiation among animals considered food and those that are forbidden. THE FACIAL SKIN on Your Dish brings together Masson’s intellectual, emotional, and emotional expertise during the last twenty years in to the pivotal book of the meals revolution. Anyone who wants to become open-eyed about their food choices – vegans, vegetarians, and meat eaters – will welcome this timely function.