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PublisherColumbia University Press

ISBN-100231172974

ISBN-139780231172974

eBay Product ID (ePID)219330240

Product Key Features

Number of Pages160 Pages

Publication NameEat this Book : a Carnivore's Manifesto

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2016

SubjectSocial, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Animals / General, Animal Rights

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaNature, Philosophy, Social Science

AuthorDominique Lestel

SeriesCritical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0 in

Item Weight7.5 Oz

Item Length0.7 in

Item Width0.6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2015-028156

ReviewsEat This Book challenges ethical vegetarians with a variety of counterarguments to consider. Though some of the rhetoric may prove indigestible, such skepticism ultimately feeds the philosophic debate on diet., Witty and comical yet always serious in its defense of meat eating, Eat This Book is a pure joy to read., Eat This Book is a refreshing and engaging appraisal of ethical vegetarianism and, by association, the more encompassing field of animal ethics. Witty and comical yet always serious in its defense of meat eating, Dominique Lestel's book is a pure joy to read., Gary Steiner has done English-language animal studies a great service in translating Dominique Lestel's Eat This Book: A Carnivore's Manifesto . The work challenges ethical vegetarians with a variety of counter-arguments to consider--though some of the rhetoric may prove indigestible, such skepticism ultimately feeds the philosophic debate on diet.

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal641.3/6

Table Of ContentTranslator's Preface A Sort of Apéritif Appetizer: How Does One Recognize an Ethical Vegetarian? Hors d'Oeuvre: A Short History of Vegetarian Practices First Course: Some (Good) Reasons Not to Become an Ethical Vegetarian Second Course: The Ethics of the Carnivore A Sort of Dessert Postface Notes Bibliography

SynopsisIf we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand our worldview to see how others consume meat ethically and sustainably. The position of vegans and vegetarians is unrealistic and exclusionary. Eat This Book calls at once for a renewed and vigorous defense of animal rights and a more open approach to meat eating that turns us into responsible carnivores. Lestel skillfully synthesizes Western philosophical views on the moral status of animals and holistic cosmologies that recognize human-animal reciprocity. He shows that the carnivore's position is more coherently ethical than vegetarianism, which isolates humans from the world by treating cruelty, violence, and conflicting interests as phenomena outside of life. Describing how meat eaters assume completely--which is to say, metabolically--their animal status, Lestel opens our eyes to the vital relation between carnivores and animals and carnivores' genuine appreciation of animals' life-sustaining flesh. He vehemently condemns factory farming and the terrible footprint of industrial meat eating. His goal is to recreate a kinship between humans and animals that reminds us of what it means to be tied to the world.

LC Classification NumberTX371.L4713 2016