Eat this book : a carnivore's manifesto / Dominique Lestel ; translated by Gary Steiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lestel, Dominique, author.

Series:

Critical perspectives on animals

Critical perspectives on animals : theory, culture, science, and law

Standardized Title:

Apologie du carnivore. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Meat--Moral and ethical aspects.

Meat.

Vegetarianism--Moral and ethical aspects.

Vegetarianism.

Human-animal relationships.

Animal welfare.

Physical Description:

xxii, 134 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Summary:

If we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand our worldview to see how others consume meat ethically and sustainably. The position of vegans and vegetarians is unrealistic and exclusionary. Eat This Book calls at once for a renewed and vigorous defense of animal rights and a more open approach to meat eating that turns us into responsible carnivores. Lestel skillfully synthesizes Western philosophical views on the moral status of animals and holistic cosmologies that recognize human-animal reciprocity. He shows that the carnivore's position is more coherently ethical than vegetarianism, which isolates humans from the world by treating cruelty, violence, and conflicting interests as phenomena outside of life. Describing how meat eaters assume completely-which is to say, metabolically-their animal status, Lestel opens our eyes to the vital relation between carnivores and animals and carnivores' genuine appreciation of animals' life-sustaining flesh. He vehemently condemns factory farming and the terrible footprint of industrial meat eating. His goal is to recreate a kinship between humans and animals that reminds us of what it means to be tied to the world. Book jacket.

Contents:

A sort of aperitif

Appetizer : how does one recognize an ethical vegetarian?

Hors d'oeuvre : a short history of vegetarian practices

First course : some (good) reasons not to become an ethical vegetarian

Second course : the ethics of the carnivore

A sort of dessert.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780231172974

9780231172967

0231172966

0231172974

OCLC:

920672183

Publisher Number:

99966738491