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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Critical perspectives on animals : theory, culture, science, and lawPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016Description: xxii, 134 pages ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780231172967 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Apologie du carnivore. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 641.36 LES 23 009199
Online resources:
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
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.
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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


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.

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