Beyond Animal Rights : Food, Pets and Ethics.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Depth of Meat-Eating -- Arguments and background pictures -- Meat-eating and well-being -- Eating well and living well -- Chapter 2: An Unwritten Contract? -- Reciprocation -- The interests of farmed animals -- The opportunity of life argument -- Which animals benefit and when? -- Chapter 3: Vegetarianism and Puritanism -- Food without history -- Are animal products bad for us? -- Vegetarianism without puritanism -- What can vegetarians reasonably hope for? -- Chapter 4: Diet and Sustainability -- Does local trump vegetarian? -- Why meat production tends to be energy hungry -- Eco-friendly diets -- Chapter 5: The Impossible Scenario -- Universal vegetarianism -- Does meat-eating make vegetarianism practical? -- The ecological problems of universal vegetarianism -- Available defences for universal vegetarianism -- Universal veganism -- Chapter 6: Love for Pets -- Animals and the human community -- Sharing our lives -- Pets and non-pets -- Love for pets -- Chapter 7: Experimentation in Context -- Can meat-eaters oppose experimentation? -- What experimentation assumes -- The argument from marginal cases -- The importance of concern for humans -- Cruelty and moral authority -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

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