LEADER 00000cam 2200409 i 4500 001 on1084619680 003 OCoLC 005 20191203015200.0 008 181009t20192019nyua b 001 0 eng 010 2018048233 020 9781138328280|qhardcover 020 1138328286|qhardcover 020 9781138328297|qpaperback 020 1138328294|qpaperback 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dYDX|dNZAUC|dEAU|dNQM 042 pcc 049 NQMA 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. 994 C0|bNQM
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