The moral complexities of eating meat
By: edited by Ben Bramble and Bob Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780199353903
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Meat industry and trade; Meat
Description: In a world of industrialized farming and feed lots, is eating meat ever a morally responsible choice? Is eating organic or free range sufficient to change the moral equation? Is there a moral cost in not eating meat? As billions of animals continue to be raised and killed by human beings for human consumption, affecting the significance and urgency in answering these questions grow.  This volume collects twelve new essays by leading moral philosophers who address the difficult questions surrounding meat eating by examining various implications and consequences of our food choices. Some argue for the moral permissibility of eating meat by suggesting views such as farm animals would not exist and flourish otherwise, and the painless death that awaits is no loss to them. Others consider more specific examples like whether buying French fries at McDonalds is just as problematic as ordering a Big Mac due to the action's indirect support of a major purveyor of meat. The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat is a stimulating contribution to the ongoing debate on meat consumption and actively challenges readers to reevaluate their stand on food and animal ethics.--INSIDE FLAP.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I.  Defending meat; title: Christopher Belshaw, meat; title: Donald W. Bruckner, strict vegetarian is immoral; title: J. Jaird Callicott, the environmental omnivore's dilemma; title: Pt. II.  Challenging meat; title: Julia Driver, individual consumption and moral complicity; title: Mark Bryant Budolfson, Is it wrong to eat meat from factory farms?  If so, why?; title: Clayton Littlejohn, potency and permissibility; title: Tristram McPherson, a moorean defense of the omnivore; title: Ben Bramble, the case against meat; title: Pt. III.  Future directions; title: Lori Gruen and Robert Jones, veganism as an aspiration; title: Neil Levy, vegetarianism : toward ideological impurity; title: Bob Fischer, against blaming the blameworthy; title: Alexandra Plakias, beetles, bicycles, and breath mints : how "omni" should omnivores be?