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Ethical vegetarianism : from Pythagoras to Peter Singer / edited by Kerry S. Walters and Lisa Portmess

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Albany : State University of New York Press, c1999

LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS
Science Library-3rd Floor	TX392 .E84 1999	IN LIBRARY

Table of Contents
	Introduction: Cruel Fatalities		1
Pt. I	Antiquity: The Kinship of Humans and Animals		11
		The Kinship of All Life / Pythagoras	13
		Abstinence and the Philosophical Life / Seneca	23
		On the Eating of Flesh / Plutarch	27
		On Abstinence from Animal Food / Porphyry	35
Pt. II	The Eighteenth Century: Diet and Human Character		47
		The Carnivorous Custom and Human Vanity / Bernard Mandeville	49
		Carnivorous Callousness / David Hartley	57
		They Pity, and Eat the Objects of Their Compassion / Oliver Goldsmith	61
		The Dubious Right to Eat Flesh / William Paley	65
		A Vindication of Natural Diet / Percy Bysshe Shelley	69
Pt. III	The Nineteenth Century: Diet and Compassion		75
		A Shameful Human Infirmity / Alphonse de Lamartine	77
		The World is a Mighty Slaughterhouse and Flesh-Eating and Human Decimation / William A. Alcott	81
		Human Beasts of Prey and Fellow-Suffering / Richard Wagner	89
		The Immorality of Carnivorism / Leo Tolstoy	97
		The Essence of True Justice / Anna Kingsford	107
Pt. IV	The Twentieth Century: Diet, Rights, and the Global Perspective		113
		The Humanities of Diet / Henry S. Salt	115
		Universal Kinship / J. Howard Moore	127
		The Unpardonable Crime / Romain Rolland	135
		Diet and Morality / Mohandas Gandhi	139
		The Ethic of Reverence for Life / Albert Schweitzer	145
		The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism / Tom Regan	153
		All Animals Are Equal / Peter Singer	165
		The Right Not to Be Eaten / Thomas Auxter	177
		An Ecological Argument for Vegetarianism / Peter S. Wentz	189
		The Pretext of "Necessary Suffering" / Stephen R. L. Clark	203
		Like Driving a Cadillac / Frances Moore Lappe	209
		Images of Death and Life: Food Animal Production and the Vegetarian Option / Harriet Schleifer	221
		Dietethics: Its Influence on Future Farming Patterns / Jon Wynne-Tyson	233
		Contextual Moral Vegetarianism / Deane Curtin	241
		The Social Construction of Edible Bodies and Humans as Predators / Carol J. Adams	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

Description	xi, 287 p. ; 24 cm
Subject	Vegetarianism
	Vegetarianism -- Moral and ethical aspects
Summary	"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."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliog.	Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-275) and index
Other Author	Walters, Kerry S
	Portmess, Lisa, 1950-
ISBN	0791440435 (alk. paper)
	0791440443 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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