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Subject(s)

• Meat—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]
• Meat industry and trade—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]
• Food chains (Ecology) [Browse]
• Vegetarianism [Browse]

Editor

• Bramble, Ben [Browse]
• Fischer, Bob [Browse]

Summary note

Every year, billions of animals are raised and killed by human beings for human consumption. What should we think of this practice? In what ways, if any, is it morally problematic? This volume collects twelve essays by leading moral philosophers examining some of the most important aspects of this topic.

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

• Part I: Defending Meat
• 1. Christopher Belshaw: "Meat"
• 2. Donald Bruckner: "Strict Vegetarianism is Immoral"
• 3. J. Baird Callicott: "The Environmental Omnivore's Dilemma"
• Part II: Challenging Meat
• 4. Julia Driver: "Individual Consumption and Moral Complicity"
• 5. Mark Budolfson: "Is it Wrong to Eat Meat from Factory Farms? If So, Why?"
• 6. Clayton Littlejohn: "Potency and Permissibility"
• 7. Tristram McPherson: "A Moorean Defense of the Omnivore"
• 8. Ben Bramble: "The Case Against Meat"
• Part III: Future Directions
• 9. Lori Gruen and Robert Jones: "Veganism as an Aspiration"
• 10. Neil Levy: "Vegetarianism: Towards Ideological Impurity"
• 11. Bob Fischer: "Against Blaming the Blameworthy"
• 12. Alexandra Plakias: "Beetles, Bicycles, and Breath Mints: How 'Omni' Should Omnivores Be?"

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ISBN

• 0-19-935392-1
• 0-19-935393-X
• 0-19-935391-3

OCLC

926890149

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