| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Critical perspectives on animals : theory, culture, science, and law |
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Critical perspectives on animals.
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| Contents |
A sort of aperitif -- Appetizer : how does one recognize an ethical vegetarian? -- Hors d'oeuvre : a short history of vegetarian practices -- First course : some (good) reasons not to become an ethical vegetarian -- Second course : the ethics of the carnivore -- A sort of dessert |
| Summary |
If we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand our worldview to see how others consume meat ethically and sustainably. The position of vegans and vegetarians is unrealistic and exclusionary. Eat This Book calls at once for a renewed and vigorous defense of animal rights and a more open approach to meat eating that turns us into responsible carnivores. Lestel skillfully synthesizes Western philosophical views on the moral status of animals and holistic cosmologies that recognize human-animal reciprocity. He shows that the carnivore's position is more coherently ethical that vegetarianism, which isolates humans from the world by treating cruelty, violence, and conflicting interests as phenomena outside of life. Describing how meat eaters assume completely - which is to say, metabolically - their animal status, Lestel opens our eyes to the vital relation between carnivores and animals and carnivores' genuine appreciation of animals' life-sustaining flesh. He vehemently condemns factory farming and the terrible footprint of industrial meat eating. His goal is to recreate a kinship between humans and the animals that reminds us of what is means to be tied to the world.--COVER |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 21, 2016) |
| Subject |
Meat -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Vegetarianism -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Human-animal relationships.
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Animal welfare.
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Food of animal origin.
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Diet, Vegetarian -- ethics
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Meat Products
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COOKING -- General.
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NATURE -- Animal Rights.
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Food of animal origin
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Animal welfare
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Human-animal relationships
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Vegetarianism -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Steiner, Gary, 1956- translator.
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| ISBN |
9780231541152 |
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0231541155 |
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