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The Ethics of Eating Animals: Usually Bad, Sometimes Wrong, Often Permissible

by Usa) Bob Fischer (texas State University

  • Paperback
  • 204 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

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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.
The Ethics of Eating Animals: Usually Bad, Sometimes Wrong, Often Permissible and The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat
The Moral Complexities of Eating MeatThe Ethics of Eating Animals: Usually Bad, Sometimes Wrong, Often Permissible

  • Title

    The Ethics of Eating Animals: Usually Bad, Sometimes Wrong, Often Permissible

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    June 2021

  • Weight

    341g

  • Page Count

    204

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781032089744

  • ISBN-10

    1032089741

  • Eden Code

    5569764