Introduction: Cruel Fatalities Part I. Antiquity: The Kinship of Humans and Animals Pythagoras (c. 570-490): The Kinship of All Life Seneca (c. 4 BCE-65 CE): Abstinence and the Philosophical Life Plutarch (c. 56-120): On the Eating of Flesh Porphyry (c. 233-306): On Abstinence from Animal Food Part II. The Eighteenth Century: Diet and Human Character Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733): The Carnivorous Custom and Human Vanity David Hartley ( 1705-1757): Carnivorous Callousness Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): They Pity, and Eat the Objects of Their Compassion William Paley (1743-1805): The Dubious Right to Eat Flesh Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): A Vindication of Natural Diet Part III. The Nineteenth Century: Diet and Compassion Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869): A Shameful Human Infirmity William A. Alcott (1798-1859): The World is a Mighty Slaughterhouse and Flesh-Eating and Human Decimation Richard Wagner (1813-1883): Human Beasts of Prey and Fellow-Suffering Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910): The Immorality of Carnivorism Anna Kingsford (1846-1888): The Essence of True Justice Part IV. The Twentieth Century: Diet, Rights, and the Global Perspective Henry S. Salt (1851-1939): The Humanities of Diet| J. Howard Moore (1862-1916): Universal Kinship Romain Rolland (1866-1944): The Unpardonable Crime Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948): Diet and Morality Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965): The Ethic of Reverence for Life Tom Regan (1938- ): The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism Peter Singer (1946- ): All Animals Are Equal Thomas Auxter (1945- ): The Right Not to Be Eaten Peter S. Wentz (1942- ): An Ecological Argument for Vegetarianism Stephen R. L. Clark (1945- ): The Pretext of "Necessary Suffering" Frances Moore Lappe (1944- ): Like Driving a Cadillac Harriet Schleifer (1952- ): Images of Death and Life: Food Animal Production and the Vegetarian Option Jon Wynne-Tyson (1924- ): Dietethics: Its Influence on Future Farming Patterns Deane Curtin (1951- ): Contextual Moral Vegetarianism Carol J. Adams (1951- ): The Social Construction of Edible Bodies and Humans as Predators Appendix I: Arguments against Ethical Vegetarianism Appendix II: Animals and Slavery Appendix III: Automatism of Brutes Appendix IV: We Have Only Indirect Duties to Animals Appendix V: Bibliography of Antivegetarian Sources For Further Reading Sources and Acknowledgments Index
Kerry S. Walters is Professor of Philosophy and Lisa Portmess is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Gettysburg College. Professor Walters is the editor of Re-thinking Reason: New Perspectives in Critical Thinking, also published by SUNY Press.
"Ethical Vegetarianism offers just the right mix of 'food for thought.' The movement for a more peaceful world has for too long hungered for a book like this. Here, truly, is a volume devoted to what we eat that belongs alongside those more numerous books describing how to cook it." - Tom Regan, author of The Case for Animal Rights "The writings of history's most important proponents of ethical vegetarianism are gathered here in one volume. This book is a wealth of information for all those concerned with ending the sufferings of animals." - Ingrid E. Newkirk, President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals "This book is noteworthy for three reasons. First, it gathers together several interesting selections from the ancient world and the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-not available elsewhere-so that the reader can see some of the historical background to current debates on animal rights. Second, the book contains several well-known authors whose thoughts on the moral status of animals have been largely, and unfairly, neglected. And thirdly, this book brings together several contemporary approaches to animal rights so that the reader can see the different ways in which this stance can be intellectually supported." - Daniel Dombrowski, author of Hartshorne and the Metaphysics of Animal Rights
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