Table of Contents
Introduction: Cruel Fatalities
Part I. Antiquity: The Kinship of Humans and Animals
Pythagoras (c. 570-490): The Kinship of All Life Seneca (c. 4 BCE-65 CE): Abstinence and the Philosophical Life Plutarch (c. 56-120): On the Eating of Flesh Porphyry (c. 233-306): On Abstinence from Animal Food
Part II. The Eighteenth Century: Diet and Human Character
Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733): The Carnivorous Custom and Human Vanity David Hartley ( 1705-1757): Carnivorous Callousness Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): They Pity, and Eat the Objects of Their Compassion William Paley (1743-1805): The Dubious Right to Eat Flesh Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): A Vindication of Natural Diet
Part III. The Nineteenth Century: Diet and Compassion
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869): A Shameful Human Infirmity William A. Alcott (1798-1859): The World is a Mighty Slaughterhouse and Flesh-Eating and Human Decimation Richard Wagner (1813-1883): Human Beasts of Prey and Fellow-Suffering Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910): The Immorality of Carnivorism Anna Kingsford (1846-1888): The Essence of True Justice
Part IV. The Twentieth Century: Diet, Rights, and the Global Perspective
Henry S. Salt (1851-1939): The Humanities of Diet| J. Howard Moore (1862-1916): Universal Kinship Romain Rolland (1866-1944): The Unpardonable Crime Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948): Diet and Morality Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965): The Ethic of Reverence for Life Tom Regan (1938- ): The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism Peter Singer (1946- ): All Animals Are Equal Thomas Auxter (1945- ): The Right Not to Be Eaten Peter S. Wentz (1942- ): An Ecological Argument for Vegetarianism Stephen R. L. Clark (1945- ): The Pretext of "Necessary Suffering" Frances Moore Lappé (1944- ): Like Driving a Cadillac Harriet Schleifer (1952- ): Images of Death and Life: Food Animal Production and the Vegetarian Option Jon Wynne-Tyson (1924- ): Dietethics: Its Influence on Future Farming Patterns Deane Curtin (1951- ): Contextual Moral Vegetarianism Carol J. Adams (1951- ): The Social Construction of Edible Bodies and Humans as Predators
Appendix I: Arguments against Ethical Vegetarianism Appendix II: Animals and Slavery Appendix III: Automatism of Brutes Appendix IV: We Have Only Indirect Duties to Animals Appendix V: Bibliography of Antivegetarian Sources For Further Reading Sources and Acknowledgments Index
