TY - BOOK ID - 78488960 TI - Eat This Book AU - Lestel, Dominique, AU - Steiner, Gary PY - 2016 SN - 0231541155 9780231541152 9780231172974 9780231172967 0231172966 0231172974 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Meat KW - Vegetarianism KW - Human-animal relationships. KW - Animal welfare. KW - Abuse of animals KW - Animal cruelty KW - Animals KW - Animals, Cruelty to KW - Animals, Protection of KW - Animals, Treatment of KW - Cruelty to animals KW - Humane treatment of animals KW - Kindness to animals KW - Mistreatment of animals KW - Neglect of animals KW - Prevention of cruelty to animals KW - Protection of animals KW - Treatment of animals KW - Welfare, Animal KW - Animal-human relationships KW - Animal-man relationships KW - Animals and humans KW - Human beings and animals KW - Man-animal relationships KW - Relationships, Human-animal KW - Meatless meals KW - Vegetarian diet KW - Diet KW - Meats KW - Food of animal origin KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Abuse of KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78488960 AB - 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. ER -