The modern savage
Subtitle: our unthinking decision to eat animals
By: James McWilliams
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781250031198
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Human-animal relationships; Vegetarianism; Food animals; Animal industry; Animal welfare
Description: "In the last four decades, food reformers have revealed the ecological and ethical problems of eating animals raised in industrial settings, turning what was once the boutique concern of radical eco-freaks into a mainstream movement. Although animal products are often labeled 'cage free,' 'free range,' and 'humanely raised,' can we trust these goods to be safe, sound, or ethical? In [this book] ... McWilliams pushes back against [what he sees as] the questionable moral standards of a largely omnivorous world and explores the 'alternative to the alternative'--not eating domesticated animals at all"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The agenda; title: Getting emotional; title: The omnivore's contradiction; title: Humane slaughter; title: Backyard butchery; title: Humane chicken; title: Utopian beef; title: Painful pork; title: Our unthinking decision.