The protest against meat eating may turn out to be one of the most significant movements of our age. In terms of our relations with animals, it is difficult to think of a more urgent moral problem than the fate of billions of animals killed every year for human consumption.
This book argues that vegetarians and vegans are not only protestors, but also moral pioneers. It provides 25 chapters which stimulate further thought, exchange, and reflection on the morality of eating meat. A rich array of philosophical, religious, historical, cultural, and practical approaches challenge our assumptions about animals and how we should relate to them. This book provides global perspectives with insights from 11 countries: US, UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Israel, Austria, the Netherlands, Canada, South Africa, and Sweden. Focusing on food consumption practices, it critically foregrounds and unpacks key ethical rationales that underpin vegetarian and vegan lifestyles. It invites us to revisit our relations with animals as food, and as subjects of exploitation, suggesting that there are substantial moral, economic, and environmental reasons for changing our habits.
This timely contribution, edited by two of the leading experts within the field, offers a rich array of interdisciplinary insights on what ethical vegetarianism and veganism means. It will be of great interest to those studying and researching in the fields of animal geography and animal-studies, sociology, food studies and consumption, environmental studies, and cultural studies. This book will be of great appeal to animal protectionists, environmentalists, and humanitarians.
Edited by:
Andrew Linzey,
Clair Linzey
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 478g
ISBN: 9781138590991
ISBN 10: 1138590991
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 26 October 2018
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Introduction: Vegetarianism as Ethical Protest Part One: Killing Sentient Beings 1.1. Why Foods Derived from Animals are Not Necessary for Human Health 1.2. Against Killing ""Happy"" Animals 1.3. Food Ethics and Justice Toward Animals 1.4. Animals as Honorary Humans 1.5. Nonhuman Animals’ Desires and Their Moral Relevance 1.6. Why Vegetarianism Wasn’t on the Menu in Early Greece 1.7. The Ethics of Eating in ""Evangelical"" Discourse: 1600–1876 1.8. Myth and Meat: C. S. Lewis Sidesteps Genesis 1:29–30 1.9. The Moral Poverty of Pescetarianism 1.10. There is Something Fishy about Eating Fish, Even on Fridays: On Christian Abstinence from Meat, Piscine Sentience, and a Fish Called Jesus Part Two: The Harms or Cruelty Involved in Institutionalized Killing 2.1. ""The Cost of Cruelty"": Henry Bergh and the Abattoirs 2.2. ""All Creation Groans"": The Live of Factory Farmed Animals in the United States 2.3. L’enfer, c’est nous autres: Institutionalized Cruelty as Standard Industry Practice in Animal Agriculture in the United States 2.4. Welfare and Productivity in Animal Agriculture 2.5. Taking on the Gaze of Jesus: Perceiving the Factory Farm in a Sacramental World 2.6. ""A Lamb As It Had Been Slain"": Mortal (Animal) Bodies in the Abrahamic Traditions 2.7. Cattle Husbandry without Slaughtering: A Lifetime of Care is Fair 2.8. Are Insects Animals? The Ethical Position of Insects in Dutch Vegetarian Diets Part Three: The Human and Environmental Costs of Institutionalized Killing 3.1. Our Ambivalent Relations with Animals 3.2. From Devouring to Honouring: A Vaishnava-Hindu Therapeutic Perspective on Human Culinary Choice 3.3. The Other Ghosts in Our Machine: Meat Processing and Slaughterhouse Workers in the United States of America 3.4. Animal Agriculture and Climate Change 3.5. The Intentional Killing of Field Animals and Ethical Veganism 3.6. How Visual Culture Can Promote Ethical Dietary Choices 3.7. Leadership, Partnership and Championship as Drivers for Animal Ethics in the Western Food Industry"
Andrew Linzey is director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford. He is a visiting professor of animal theology at the University of Winchester, and the first professor of animal ethics at the Graduate Theological Foundation, Indiana. Clair Linzey is the deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She holds an MA in theological studies from the University of St Andrews, and an MTS from Harvard Divinity School. She is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of St Andrews on animal theology and Leonardo Boff.
Reviews for Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism
Veganism is shaping up to be the ethical fight of the century. In a brilliant tribute to the fight ahead, Clair Linzey and Andrew Linzey of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics published a collection of essays from 25 of the most forward-thinking vegan and vegetarian writers from 11 different countries. The result is the 318-page moral heavyweight Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism (Routledge 2018). Finally, arguing for the end of animal suffering is getting the time and space it deserves.Read this book Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism with two things in mind: you can be the change you want to see in the world. And you can start by loving animals like sentient beings, not pieces of meat. Matthew Zampa Sentient Meida: https://sentientmedia.org/book-review-ethical-vegetarianism-and-veganism/
