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010      2018048233 
020    9781138328280|qhardcover 
020    1138328286|qhardcover 
020    9781138328297|qpaperback 
020    1138328294|qpaperback 
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050 00 TX371|b.H78 2019 
100 1  Huemer, Michael,|d1969-|eauthor. 
245 10 Dialogues on ethical vegetarianism /|cMichael Huemer. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bRoutledge,|c2019. 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    xvi, 117 pages :|billustrations ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Day 1: suffering, intelligence, and the risk argument -- 
       Day 2: other defences of meat consumption -- Day 3: 
       consciousness and rational belief -- Day 4: the vegan life,
       abstract theory, and moral motivation. 
520    After lives filled with deep suffering, 74 billion animals
       are slaughtered worldwide every year on factory farms. 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 four days. The issues they cover 
       include: how intelligence affects the badness of pain, 
       whether consumers are responsible for the practices of an 
       industry, how individual choices affect an industry, 
       whether farm animals are better off living on factory 
       farms than not existing at all, whether meat-eating is 
       natural, whether morality protects those who cannot 
       understand morality, whether morality protects those who 
       are not members of society, whether humans alone possess 
       souls, whether different creatures have different degrees 
       of consciousness, why extreme animal welfare positions 
       "sound crazy," and the role of empathy in moral judgment. 
       The two students go on to discuss the vegan life, why 
       people who accept the arguments in favor of veganism often
       fail to change their behavior, and how vegans should 
       interact with non-vegans. A foreword, by Peter Singer, 
       introduces and provides context for the dialogues, and a 
       final annotated bibliography offers a list of sources 
       related to the discussion. It offers abstracts of the most
       important books and articles related to the ethics of 
       vegetarianism and veganism. 
650  0 Meat|xMoral and ethical aspects. 
650  0 Animal welfare. 
650  0 Vegetarianism. 
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