Why it's OK to eat meat / Dan C. Shahar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shahar, Dan C., author.

Series:

Why it's OK

Why It's OK

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meat.

Meat industry and trade--Moral and ethical aspects.

Meat industry and trade.

Vegetarianism.

Physical Description:

220 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Biography/History:

Dan C. Shahar is Assistant Professor of Philosophy--Research at the University of New Orleans and a member of the Urban Entrepreneurshipand Policy Institute. He is the winner of the International Society for Environmental Ethics' 2020 Holmes Rolston III Early Career Essay Prize for Environmental Philosophy and co-editor (with David Schmidtz) of the latest edition of Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works (2018).

Summary:

Vegetarians have argued at great length that meat-eating is wrong. Even so, the vast majority of people continue to eat meat, and even most vegetarians eventually give up on their diets. Does this prove these people must be morally corrupt? In Why It's OK to Eat Meat, Dan C. Shahar argues the answer is no: it's entirely possible to be an ethical person while continuing to eat meat--and not just the "fancy" offerings from the farmers' market but also the regular meat we find at most supermarkets and restaurants. Shahar's examination forcefully echoes vegetarians' concerns about the meat industry's impacts on animals, workers, the environment, and public health. However, he shows that the most influential ethical arguments for avoiding meat on the basis of these considerations are ultimately unpersuasive. Instead of insisting we all become vegetarians, Shahar argues each of us has broad latitude to choose which of the world's problems to tackle, in what ways, and to what extents, and hence people can decline to take up this particular form of activism without doing anything wrong. Key Features First book-length defense of meat-eating written for a popular audience Punchy, accessible introduction to the multifaceted debate over the ethics of eating meat Includes pioneering new examinations of humane labeling practices Shows why appeals to universalized patterns of behavior can't vindicate vegetarians' claims that there's a duty to avoid meat Develops a novel theory of ethical activism with potential applications to a wide range of other issues

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: One. Is It OK to Eat Meat?

In Search of Good Arguments

Enjoyable?

Healthy?

Natural?

Endorsed by God?

The Other Side of the Coin

Plan for the Book

Two. Conscientious Omnivorism

Overlapping Characteristics

Debunking Respect?

The Need for an Explanation

The Charge of Discrimination

Eating Our Fellow Creatures

Early Demises

The Possibility of "Conscientious Omnivorism"

Three. The Other 99%

Chicken

Pork

Beef

What Should Be Our Standards?

Industry Standards

Independent Certifications

The Problems Are Real

Four. Making a Difference

What Happens When a Person Eats Meat?

How Inefficacy Is Possible

Transmission Up the Supply Chain

Responsiveness to Changes

Participating in a Movement

Why Choose?

Bang for the Buck

A Misguided Argumentative Strategy

What If Everyone Did That? Five

The Universalization Test

A World Full of Meat-Eaters

A World Full of Vegetarians

Ideal Outcomes vs. Strategic Decisions

Chasing Stags

Raising the Stakes

Turning the Tide

Holding Serve

Six. Hanging Our Hats

Taking a Stand

Consumption as Endorsement

The Puzzle of Complicity

How to Respond?

What We Celebrate

Better Together?

It's OK to Eat Meat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

0367172763

9780367172763

0367172755

9780367172756

OCLC:

1249801498

Publisher Number:

99989195885