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Title: Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer by Kerry Walters, Lisa Portmess ISBN: 0-7914-4044-3 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I'm not a vegetarian, but . . .
Comment: I've read several of Walters's other books, and so I decided to give this one a try. It's basically a collection of essays going all the way back to the ancient Greeks that defend vegetarianism as a moral choice. This is a new concept for me. I always thought people went vegetarian because they wanted to stay healthy--you know, the narcissistic types who wanted to live to be a hundred and to have a beautiful body. The cool thing about this book is that it showed me that vegetarianism is a lot more than that. Maybe it's time to throw away the ground beef and stay away from fast food places.
Rating: 5
Summary: A long-awaited and excellent anthology
Comment: What Walters and Portmess have done is to bring together important arguments about the use of animal flesh as human food from classical writers to the present day. A veggie reader like this is something I've wanted to see since I became vegetarian several years ago, and I'd encourage anyone who is thinking seriously about what they eat and why to give it a look. To the book's great credit (and usefulness), the editors include a very useful appendix of anti-vegetarian writings, which is a useful resource for the inevitable arguments that meat-eaters offer vegetarians. I am very much lookin forward to the volume of religious writings on vegetarianism that the editors have in the works. This book is a great contribution to telling the truth about vegetarian history (which is anything but trendy) as well as a fine collection of compassionate, ethical, and important voices. Keep it next to your cookbooks in the kitchen.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent chronological anthology
Comment: Being totally unfamiliar with virtually any mode of vegetarian thought when picking up this book, I would say that this is probably the best starting point that there possibly could be on the subject, outlining vegetarian philosophy throught the millenia. Its three main divisions are ancient (Greek) times, the 18th century, and the present. Throughout the editors provide helpful commentary essays on the periods they are showcasing and offer great short summaries before each individual piece, finishing with appendices that feature the salient antivegetarian arguments, principally those of Aristotle and Descartes, and excerpts from Kant, who would be kind of in between, if that's possible, on the ethical treatment of animals. Of course, some of the excerpts were less interesting than others, some were enthralling- Ovid's writings of Pythagoras are wonderfully poetic, and Tolstoy's recollection of his visits to a slaughterhouse are vividly grotesque, numbing, and haunting- my two favorite pieces. Overall a highly recommended read or handbook, especially for someone new to vegetarian thought.
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Title: Religious Vegetarianism: From Hesiod to the Dalai Lama by Kerry Walters, Lisa Portmess ISBN: 0791449726 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Vegetarianism: A History by Colin Spencer ISBN: 1568582382 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy by Matthew Scully ISBN: 0312261470 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Food for the Gods: Vegetarianism & the World's Religions by Rynn Berry ISBN: 0962616923 Publisher: Pythagorean Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating, Revised Edition by Erik Marcus ISBN: 0935526870 Publisher: McBooks Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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