Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism

Worldwide every year, 83 billion animals are slaughtered on factory farms, at the end of brief lives full of suffering. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry? In this book, two college students - a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian - discuss this question in a series of dialogues conducted over five days.

Autorentext

Michael Huemer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of more than 80 academic articles in ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, and metaphysics, as well as about twelve brilliant and amazing books that you should immediately buy, including Ethical Intuitionism (2005), The Problem of Political Authority (2013), and Knowledge, Reality, and Value (2021).

Inhalt

Day 1: Suffering, Intelligence, and the Risk Argument Day 2: Other Defenses of Meat Consumption Day 3: Consciousness and Rational Belief Day 4: The Vegan life, Abstract Theory, and Moral Motivation Day 5: Health, Religious Arguments, and Progressive Arguments Appendix 1: Recipes Appendix 2: Annotated Bibliography