Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Linzey, Andrew; Linzey, Clair

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429955815
• Artikelnr.: 55277152

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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