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| Ethical Vegetarianism | 
 enlarge | Creators: Kerry Walters, Lisa Portmess
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 478683
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 300
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0791440443
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.262
EAN: 9780791440445
ASIN: 0791440443
Publication Date: January 7, 1999
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 I'm not a vegetarian, but . . . February 5, 2001
33 out of 34 found this review helpful
I've read several of Walters's other books, and so I decided to give this one a try. It's basically a collection of essays going all the way back to the ancient Greeks that defend vegetarianism as a moral choice. This is a new concept for me. I always thought people went vegetarian because they wanted to stay healthy--you know, the narcissistic types who wanted to live to be a hundred and to have a beautiful body. The cool thing about this book is that it showed me that vegetarianism is a lot more than that. Maybe it's time to throw away the ground beef and stay away from fast food places.
This made me a vegetarian! January 8, 2001
33 out of 33 found this review helpful
My wife, a vegetarian, gave me (up to this time a nonvegetarian) this book for Christmas. After reading it, I'm a believer. I never took all the health arguments for vegetarianism seriously, but it's hard to deny this book's claim that a meatless diet is the right thing to do. I especially liked the selections from contemporary vegetarians-Peter Singer, Mary Moore Lappe, Harriet Schleiffer, Carol Adams. They point out that meat eating not only needlessly tortures and kills millions of animals, but that it is also economically wasteful. For me, this is the strongest argument. If youre thinking about going vegetarian, read this book.
A long-awaited and excellent anthology January 13, 2000
42 out of 42 found this review helpful
What Walters and Portmess have done is to bring together important arguments about the use of animal flesh as human food from classical writers to the present day. A veggie reader like this is something I've wanted to see since I became vegetarian several years ago, and I'd encourage anyone who is thinking seriously about what they eat and why to give it a look. To the book's great credit (and usefulness), the editors include a very useful appendix of anti-vegetarian writings, which is a useful resource for the inevitable arguments that meat-eaters offer vegetarians. I am very much lookin forward to the volume of religious writings on vegetarianism that the editors have in the works. This book is a great contribution to telling the truth about vegetarian history (which is anything but trendy) as well as a fine collection of compassionate, ethical, and important voices. Keep it next to your cookbooks in the kitchen.
History's most eloquent vegetarians, all in one book! December 29, 1999
40 out of 41 found this review helpful
The editors did an excellent job of choosing, organizing and editing this fascinating book. The book includes writings from over 30 people (including relevant biograpical info), and useful bibliographies both pro- and anti-vegetarian. I spent a lot of time at libraries looking through the compact shelving until I discovered this book and found a lot of what I needed already organized and laid out before me. A must-read for all those interested in vegetarianism and humanity's relationship with other animals!
Advance praise for Ethical Vegetarianism February 23, 1999
31 out of 32 found this review helpful
"Ethical Vegetarianism offers just the right mix of 'food for thought.' The movement for a more peaceful world has for too long hungered for a book like this. Here, truly, is a volume devoted to what we eat that belongs alongside those more numerous books describing how to cook it." -- Tom Regan, author of The Case for Animal Rights"The writings of history's most important proponents of ethical vegetarianism are gathered here in one volume. This book is a wealth of information for all those concerned with ending the sufferings of animals." --Ingrid E. Newkirk, President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals "This book is noteworthy for three reasons. First, it gathers together several interesting selections from the ancient world and the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--not available elsewhere--so that the reader can see some of the historical background to current debates on animal rights. Second, the book contains several well-known authors whose thoughts on the moral status of animals have been largely, and unfairly, neglected. And thirdly, this book brings together several contemporary approaches to animal rights so that the reader can see the different ways in which this stance can be intellectually supported." --Daniel Dombrowski, author of Hartshorne and the Metaphysics of Animal Rights
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