The Ethics of Diet
Subtitle: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-Eating
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780252071300
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Fitness & diet; Food & beverage technology; Technology; Cooking / Wine; Diet/Nutrition; Animal Rights; Essays; Vegetarian - General; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Food Science; Diet; Vegetarianism
First sentence: HESIOD-the poet par excellence of peace and of agriculture, as Homer is of war and of the "heroic" virtues-was born at Ascra, a village in Boeotia, a part of Hellas, which, in spite of its proverbial fame for beefeating and stupidity, gave birth to three other eminent persons-Pindar, the lyric poet, Epameinondas, the great military genius and statesman, and Plutarch, the most amiable moralist of antiquity.