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 Fatalities | 1 | |
Pt. I | Antiquity: The Kinship of Humans and Animals | 11 |
The Kinship of All Life | 13 | |
Abstinence and the Philosophical Life | 23 | |
On the Eating of Flesh | 27 | |
On Abstinence from Animal Food | 35 | |
Pt. II | The Eighteenth Century: Diet and Human Character | 47 |
The Carnivorous Custom and Human Vanity | 49 | |
Carnivorous Callousness | 57 | |
They Pity, and Eat the Objects of Their Compassion | 61 | |
The Dubious Right to Eat Flesh | 65 | |
A Vindication of Natural Diet | 69 | |
Pt. III | The Nineteenth Century: Diet and Compassion | 75 |
A Shameful Human Infirmity | 77 | |
The World is a Mighty Slaughterhouse and Flesh-Eating and Human Decimation | 81 | |
Human Beasts of Prey and Fellow-Suffering | 89 | |
The Immorality of Carnivorism | 97 | |
The Essence of True Justice | 107 | |
Pt. IV | The Twentieth Century: Diet, Rights, and the Global Perspective | 113 |
The Humanities of Diet | 115 | |
Universal Kinship | 127 | |
The Unpardonable Crime | 135 | |
Diet and Morality | 139 | |
The Ethic of Reverence for Life | 145 | |
The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism | 153 | |
All Animals Are Equal | 165 | |
The Right Not to Be Eaten | 177 | |
An Ecological Argument for Vegetarianism | 189 | |
The Pretext of "Necessary Suffering" | 203 | |
Like Driving a Cadillac | 209 | |
Images of Death and Life: Food Animal Production and the Vegetarian Option | 221 | |
Dietethics: Its Influence on Future Farming Patterns | 233 | |
Contextual Moral Vegetarianism | 241 | |
The Social Construction of Edible Bodies and Humans as Predators | 247 | |
App. I | Arguments against Ethical Vegetarianism | 253 |
App. II | Animals and Slavery | 259 |
App. III | Automatism of Brutes | 261 |
App. IV | We Have Only Indirect Duties to Animals | 267 |
App. V | Bibliography of Antivegetarian Sources | 271 |
For Further Reading | 273 | |
Sources and Acknowledgments | 277 | |
Index | 283 |
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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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