✍ Scribed by Dan C. Shahar
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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
Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 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
Chapter 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”
Chapter Three: The Other 99%
Chicken
Pork
Beef
What Should Be Our Standards?
Industry Standards
Independent Certifications
The Problems Are Real
Chapter 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
Chapter Five: What If Everyone Did That?
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
Chapter 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
Bibliography
Index
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