[PDF] The Ethics Of Diet eBook

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1594866872

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An investigation of the food choices people make and practices of the food producers who create this food for us leading to a discussion of how we might put more ethics into our shopping carts.

Author : Howard Williams
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781907661174

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This book is a history of vegetarianism as told through the writings of some of history's great thinkers and writers. The author Howard Williams travels back in time to Antiquity and from there moves through the centuries all the way up to his contemporaries in the 19th century. Leo Tolstoy was impressed with 'The Ethics of Diet'; he had it translated into his native Russian and wrote the narrative for the Russian edition. Throughout the ages, many of the world's finest minds detested the eating of flesh and the cruelty that humans inflict on their fellow creatures. Buddha advocated a vegetarian diet for his monks and stated: ""There hath been slaughter for the sacrifice, and slaying for the meat, but henceforth none shall spill the blood of life, nor taste of flesh; seeing that knowledge grows and life is one, and mercy cometh to the merciful."" Pythagoras abstained from eating meat around the age of nineteen as he believed that abstaining from flesh kept the soul pure. Lamblichus, who studied Pythagoras stated that the great mathematician; "Enjoyed abstinence from the flesh of animals, because it is conducive to peace; for those who are accustomed to abominate the slaughter of other animals as iniquitous and unnatural, will think it still more unjust and unlawful to kill a man or to engage in war."" Arthur Schopenhauer, the German philosopher said; ""Since compassion for animals is so intimately associated with goodness of character, it may be confidently asserted that whoever is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."" Plutarch, Seneca, Plato, Shelley and Wagner all grace these pages and many more... Thoreau observes, ""One farmer says to me, ""You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;"" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle.""

Author : Matthew Evans
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1760871613

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A scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer. 'Compelling, illuminating and often confronting, On Eating Meat is a brilliant blend of a gastronome's passion with forensic research into the sources of the meat we eat. Matthew Evans brings his unflinching honesty - and a farmer's hands-on experience - to the question of how to be an ethical carnivore.' Hugh Mackay 'Intellectually thrilling - a book that challenges both vegans and carnivores in the battle for a new ethics of eating. This book will leave you surprised, engrossed and sometimes shocked - whatever your food choices.' Richard Glover How can 160,000 deaths in one day constitute a 'medium-sized operation'? Think beef is killing the world? What about asparagus farms? Or golf? Eat dairy? You'd better eat veal, too. Going vegan might be all the rage, but the fact is the world has an ever-growing, insatiable appetite for meat - especially cheap meat. Former food critic and chef, now farmer and restaurateur Matthew Evans grapples with the thorny issues around the ways we produce and consume animals. From feedlots and abattoirs, to organic farms and animal welfare agencies, he has an intimate, expert understanding of the farming practices that take place in our name. Evans calls for less radicalisation, greater understanding, and for ethical omnivores to stand up for the welfare of animals and farmers alike. Sure to spark intense debate, On Eating Meat is an urgent read for all vegans, vegetarians and carnivores.

Author : Howard Williams
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732660028

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Reproduction of the original: The Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams

Author : Howard Williams
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 373266001X

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Reproduction of the original: The Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams

Author : Andrew Chignell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1136578072

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Everyone is talking about food. Chefs are celebrities. "Locavore" and "freegan" have earned spots in the dictionary. Popular books and films about food production and consumption are exposing the unintended consequences of the standard American diet. Questions about the principles and values that ought to guide decisions about dinner have become urgent for moral, ecological, and health-related reasons. In Philosophy Comes to Dinner, twelve philosophers—some leading voices, some inspiring new ones—join the conversation, and consider issues ranging from the sustainability of modern agriculture, to consumer complicity in animal exploitation, to the pros and cons of alternative diets.

Author : Bob Fischer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1000497267

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Intensive animal agriculture wrongs many, many animals. Philosophers have argued, on this basis, that most people in wealthy Western contexts are morally obligated to avoid animal products. This book explains why the author thinks that’s mistaken. He reaches this negative conclusion by contending that the major arguments for veganism fail: they don’t establish the right sort of connection between producing and eating animal-based foods. Moreover, if they didn’t have this problem, then they would have other ones: we wouldn’t be obliged to abstain from all animal products, but to eat strange things instead—e.g., roadkill, insects, and things left in dumpsters. On his view, although we have a collective obligation not to farm animals, there is no specific diet that most individuals ought to have. Nevertheless, he does think that some people are obligated to be vegans, but that’s because they’ve joined a movement, or formed a practical identity, that requires that sacrifice. This book argues that there are good reasons to make such a move, albeit not ones strong enough to show that everyone must do likewise.

Author : Howard Williams
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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People thinking that vegetarianism is a modern movement of the 21st century will be surprised to know that this philosophy of life has deep roots in history and was quite popular at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The author of the book Howard Williams gives an account of vegetarianism from antiquity to his contemporaries in the 19th century. Remarkably, world-famous writer Leo Tolstoy prepared the Russian translation of this book.

Author : Paul B. Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199391696

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Paul B. Thompson covers diet and health issues, livestock welfare, world hunger, food justice, environmental ethics, Green Revolution technology and GMOs in this concise but comprehensive study. He shows how food can be a nexus for integrating larger social issues in social inequality, scientific reductionism, and the eclipse of morality.