Deep Vegetarianism

Temple University Press

A HistoricalPhilosophical Overview	1

2 Antiquity and the Special Case of Porphyry	5

3 From Medieval Times to the Modern Era	13

You Are What You Eat Almost The Meaning of Food	23

2 The Meaning of Meat	25

3 Vegetarian Meanings	32

Compartmentalization of Thought and Feeling and the Burden of Proof	39

2 Inconsistency	44

2 Interspecies Kinship and Compassion	115

3 Universal Nonviolence Ahimsa	124

Native Peoples Spirituality	129

5 Major Religions and Minority Voices	133

6 Vegetarian Building Blocks	139

Arguments Against Vegetarianism	140

2 Humans as Natural Carnivores	147

3 Animals as Replaceable	150

3 Failing to See Connections	46

Environmental Ethicists and MeatEating	47

5 Reversing the Burden of Proof	51

Vegetarian Outlook	54

2 Experiences Emotions and Vegetarianism	56

3 Grounds for Vegetarianism	60

4 The Moral Status of Animals	61

Arguments for Vegetarianism I	65

2 Good Health	66

3 Animal Suffering and Death	76

4 Impartiality or Disinterested Moral Concern	80

Arguments for Vegetarianism II	84

2 The Manipulation of Nature	88

3 World Hunger and Injustice	95

4 Interconnected Forms of Oppression	100

5 Common Threads	111

Arguments for Vegetarianism III	113

4 An Ecological Objection	153

5 The Necessity of Killing	155

6 A Feminist Critique of Vegetarianism	156

7 Indigenous Peoples Cultural Imperialism and MeatEating	159

8 Preventing Carnivorous Behavior in Nature	163

9 Eating Shmoos and Other Consenting or Indifferent Animals	164

10 Why Not Eat FreeRange Animals?	168

11 The Requirement of Moral Sainthood	169

12 Some Observations	173

Conscience and Change	175

2 Vegetarianism or Veganism?	178

3 New Directions and Creative Thinking	180

4 A Way of Life	181

Notes	185

Select Bibliography	215

Index	227

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