Description
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.
About the Author
Dominique Lestel is an associate professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. He is a founding member and part of the Archives Husserl Research Center and, with Thierry Bardini, is coauthor of Journey to the End of the Species. Gary Steiner is professor of philosophy at Bucknell University. He is the author of Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism; Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy; and Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship.
Reviews
Witty and comical yet always serious in its defense of meat eating, Eat This Book is a pure joy to read. -- Brett Buchanan, Laurentian University Eat This Book challenges ethical vegetarians with a variety of counterarguments to consider. Though some of the rhetoric may prove indigestible, such skepticism ultimately feeds the philosophic debate on diet. -- Ralph R. Acampora, Hofstra University
Book Information
ISBN 9780231172974
Author Dominique Lestel
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press