TITLE:
Ethical Vegetarianism:
>From Pythagoras to Peter Singer

AUTHOR:
Kerry S. Walters
Email: kwalters@gettysburg.edu
 & Lisa Portmess

PUBLISHER:
State University of New York Press
State University Plaza,
Albany, New York 12246
Tel: 518-472-5000
Fax: 518-472-5038
Email: orderbook@cupserv.org
Website: http://www.sunypress.edu

ISBN #:
0-7914-4044-3

RETAIL PRICE:
$19.95 U.S.A.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Classical and contemporary authors explore vegetarianism from antiquity to
the present.

"Ethical Vegetarianism offers just the right mix of 'food for thought.' The
movement for a more peaceful world has for too long hungered for a book like
this. Here, truly, is a volume devoted to what we eat that belongs alongside
those more numerous books describing how to cook it." -- Tom Regan, author of
The Case for Animal Rights

For vegetarians seeking the historical roots of vegetarianism, for animal
rights activists and the environmentally concerned, and for those questioning
their consumption of meat, here's a book that provides a deep understanding
of vegetarianism as more than just a dietary decision.

This is the first comprehensive collection of primary source material on
vegetarianism as a moral choice and includes the writings of Carol Adams,
Bernard de Mandeville, Mohandas Gandhi, Oliver Goldsmith, Anna Kingsford,
Frances Moore Lappe, Porphyry, Pythagoras, Tom Regan, Albert Schweitzer,
Seneca, Peter Singer, Leo Tolstoy, and Richard Wagner, among others.

"The writings of history's most important proponents of ethical vegetarianism
are gathered here in one volume. This book is a wealth of information for all
those concerned with ending the sufferings of animals." -- Ingrid E. Newkirk,
President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

"This book is noteworthy for three reasons. First, it gathers together
several interesting selections from the ancient world and the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries--not available elsewhere--so that the reader can see
some of the historical background to current debates on animal rights.
Second, the book contains several well-known authors whose thoughts on the
moral status of animals have been largely, and unfairly, neglected. And
thirdly, this book brings together several contemporary approaches to animal
rights so that the reader can see the different ways in which this stance can
be intellectually supported." -- Daniel Dombrowski, author of Hartshorne and
the Metaphysics of Animal Rights

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Kerry S. Walters is Professor of Philosophy and Lisa Portmess is Chair of the
Philosophy Department at Gettysburg College. Professor Walters is the editor
of Re-thinking Reason: New Perspectives in Critical Thinking, also published
by SUNY Press.

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