Animal, Vegetable, or Woman?
Subtitle: A Feminist Critique of Ethical Vegetarianism
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780791446874
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Vegetarian cookery; Medical; Bioethics; Vegetarianism; Health & Fitness; Consumer Health; Philosophy; Moral and ethical aspects; Diets - Special Conditions; Nutrition; Life Sciences - Biology - General
Description: "Kathryn Paxton George challenges the view held by noted philosophers Tom Regan and Peter Singer and ecofeminists Carol Adams and Deane Curtin who assume the Principle of Equality to argue that no one should eat meat or animal products. She shows how these renowned individuals also violate the Principle of Equality, because they place women, children, adolescents, the elderly, and many others in a subordinate position.

She reviews the principal arguments of these major ethical thinkers, offers a detailed examination of the nutritional literature on vegetarianism, and shows how this inconsistency arises and why it recurs in every major argument for ethical vegetarianism. Included is her own view about what we should eat, which she calls "feminist aesthetic semi-vegetarianism.""--BOOK JACKET.