PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Dan C. Shahar is Assistant Professor of Philosophy—Research at the University of New Orleans and a member of the Urban Entrepreneurship and Policy Institute. He is the winner of the International Society for Environmental Ethics’ 2020 Holmes Rolston III Early Career Essay Prize for Environmental Philosophy and co-editor (with David Schmidtz) of the latest edition of Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works (2018).
This is a fantastic volume. Shahar offers an accessible, compelling, and compact defense of the permissibility of eating meat-it's perfect for the classroom. At the same time, he's written a book that's full of material that pushes this important conversation forward. (His discussion of the Stag Hunt alone is worth the sticker price.) Whoever you are and whatever you make of his conclusions, Shahar's arguments are worth careful consideration. Bob Fischer, Texas State University Anyone asking themselves whether they should become a vegetarian will find this book to be an invaluable resource. For the difficult to balance criteria of accessibility and comprehensiveness, Why It's Okay to Eat Meat is unsurpassed. To Shahar's credit, the issues are given such a balanced treatment that some readers will surely reach the opposite conclusion to the one expressed in the title. Paul B. Thompson, Michigan State University In the course of presenting state-of-the-art arguments that it's OK to eat meat, Shahar succeeds in getting us to focus on the bigger picture. What actions and attitudes actually help us advance justice and wellbeing? Which are just virtue-signaling sideshows? Vegetarians and meat-eaters alike owe it to us all to take these challenging questions seriously. Mark Budolfson, Rutgers University
