The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat

Ben Bramble received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney in 2014. He is a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at Lund University, Sweden. His main research interests are in moral and political philosophy.Bob Fischer earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago; he is now an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University. He works on issues in animal ethics, modal epistemology, moral psychology, and philosophical methodology.

The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat is a valuable addition to the literature and a very good book. It contains twelve new essays and a short introduction from the editors...There are sharp, riveting asides about anti-natalism, bug-eating, comparative accounts of harm, duties to pets and prey animals, and so on...These are gripping, pressing issues. It is wonderful that there is a state-of-the-art collection that touches on them. Anyone interested in the topic should read it cover-to-cover.

• Introduction ; Part I: Defending Meat ; 1. Christopher Belshaw, <"Meat>" ; 2. Donald Bruckner, <"Strict Vegetarianism is Immoral>" ; 3. J. Baird Callicott, <"The Environmental Omnivore's Dilemma>" ; Part II: Challenging Meat ; 4. Julia Driver, <"Individual Consumption and Moral Complicity>" ; 5. Mark Budolfson, <"Is it Wrong to Eat Meat from Factory Farms? If So, Why?>" ; 6. Clayton Littlejohn, <"Potency and Permissibility>" ; 7. Tristram McPherson, <"A Moorean Defense of the Omnivore>" ; 8. Ben Bramble, <"The Case Against Meat>" ; Part III: Future Directions ; 9. Lori Gruen and Robert Jones, <"Veganism as an Aspiration>" ; 10. Neil Levy, <"Vegetarianism: Towards Ideological Impurity>" ; 11. Bob Fischer, <"Against Blaming the Blameworthy>" ; 12. Alexandra Plakias, <"Beetles, Bicycles, and Breath Mints: How 'Omni' Should Omnivores Be? ; Index