Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Ethical Vegetarianism or Give Sorrow Words

Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer

Author: Kerry S Walters

For vegetarians seeking the historical roots of vegetarianism, for animal rights activists and the environmentally concerned, and for those questioning their consumption of meat, here's a book that provides a deep understanding of vegetarianism as more than just a dietary decision.

Booknews

Brings together primary sources on vegetarianism as a moral choice, by authors including Mohandas Gandhi, Frances Moore Lappe, Pythagoras, Albert Schweitzer, and Leo Tolstoy. Selections are arranged chronologically, from antiquity to the present, and each selection includes an introduction. Appendices overview arguments against ethical vegetarianism. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

What People Are Saying

Tom Regan
Ethical Vegetarianism offers just the right mix of 'food for thought.' The movement for a more peaceful world has for too long hungered for a book like this. Here, truly, is a volume devoted to what we eat that belongs alongside those more numerous books describing how to cook it.
— Author of The Case for Animal Rights




Table of Contents:
Introduction: Cruel Fatalities1
Pt. IAntiquity: The Kinship of Humans and Animals11
The Kinship of All Life13
Abstinence and the Philosophical Life23
On the Eating of Flesh27
On Abstinence from Animal Food35
Pt. IIThe Eighteenth Century: Diet and Human Character47
The Carnivorous Custom and Human Vanity49
Carnivorous Callousness57
They Pity, and Eat the Objects of Their Compassion61
The Dubious Right to Eat Flesh65
A Vindication of Natural Diet69
Pt. IIIThe Nineteenth Century: Diet and Compassion75
A Shameful Human Infirmity77
The World is a Mighty Slaughterhouse and Flesh-Eating and Human Decimation81
Human Beasts of Prey and Fellow-Suffering89
The Immorality of Carnivorism97
The Essence of True Justice107
Pt. IVThe Twentieth Century: Diet, Rights, and the Global Perspective113
The Humanities of Diet115
Universal Kinship127
The Unpardonable Crime135
Diet and Morality139
The Ethic of Reverence for Life145
The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism153
All Animals Are Equal165
The Right Not to Be Eaten177
An Ecological Argument for Vegetarianism189
The Pretext of "Necessary Suffering"203
Like Driving a Cadillac209
Images of Death and Life: Food Animal Production and the Vegetarian Option221
Dietethics: Its Influence on Future Farming Patterns233
Contextual Moral Vegetarianism241
The Social Construction of Edible Bodies and Humans as Predators247
App. IArguments against Ethical Vegetarianism253
App. IIAnimals and Slavery259
App. IIIAutomatism of Brutes261
App. IVWe Have Only Indirect Duties to Animals267
App. VBibliography of Antivegetarian Sources271
For Further Reading273
Sources and Acknowledgments277
Index283

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Give Sorrow Words: Working with a Dying Child

Author: Dorothy Judd

Give Sorrow Words gives an overview of children's attitudes toward death and considers the moral and ethical issues raised by treatments for life-threatening illnesses in children. In this new edition, available for the first time in the United States, Dorothy Judd draws on her increasing experiences with dying children and their parents to refine and clarify her work as presented in the earlier edition. This book helps readers to make sense out of the irreconcilable tension of embracing death as a part of life and accepting the death of a child. Through her work with Robert, a young boy dying of acute myeloblastic leukemia, Judd helps readers to see anew the need to reconcile the two tensions and to make the necessary decisions for medical care.



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