| Description |
ix, 217 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Defending meat -- Meat / Christopher Belshaw -- Strict vegetarian is immoral / Donald W. Bruckner -- The environmental omnivore's dilemma / J. Baird Callicott -- pt. II. Challenging meat -- Individual consumption and moral complicity / Julia Driver -- Is it wrong to eat meat from factory farms? If so, why? / Mark Bryant Budolfson -- Potency and permissibility / Clayton Littlejohn -- A moorean defense of the omnivore / Tristram McPherson -- The case against meat / Ben Bramble -- pt. III. Future directions -- Veganism as an aspiration / Lori Gruen and Robert Jones -- Vegetarianism : toward ideological impurity / Neil Levy -- Against blaming the blameworthy / Bob Fischer -- Beetles, bicycles, and breath mints : how "omni" should omnivores be? / Alexandra Plakias. |
| Summary |
In a world of industrialized farming and feed lots, is eating meat ever a morally responsible choice? Is eating organic or free range sufficient to change the moral equation? Is there a moral cost in not eating meat? As billions of animals continue to be raised and killed by human beings for human consumption, affecting the significance and urgency in answering these questions grow. This volume collects twelve new essays by leading moral philosophers who address the difficult questions surrounding meat eating by examining various implications and consequences of our food choices. Some argue for the moral permissibility of eating meat by suggesting views such as farm animals would not exist and flourish otherwise, and the painless death that awaits is no loss to them. Others consider more specific examples like whether buying French fries at McDonalds is just as problematic as ordering a Big Mac due to the action's indirect support of a major purveyor of meat. The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat is a stimulating contribution to the ongoing debate on meat consumption and actively challenges readers to reevaluate their stand on food and animal ethics.--INSIDE FLAP. |
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Meat -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Meat industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Kött -- etik och moral.
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Köttproduktion -- etik och moral.
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| Added Author |
Bramble, Ben, editor.
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Fischer, Bob (Robert William), editor.
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| ISBN |
9780199353903 (cloth ;) (alk. paper) |
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0199353905 (cloth ;) (alk. paper) |
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