Michael Huemer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of more than 80 academic articles in ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, and metaphysics, as well as about twelve brilliant and amazing books that you should immediately buy, including Ethical Intuitionism (2005), The Problem of Political Authority (2013), and Knowledge, Reality, and Value (2021).

Praise for the First Edition:"In the future, when people ask me why I don’t eat meat, I will tell them to read this book."-- Peter Singer, from the Foreword

• Day 1: Suffering, Intelligence, and the Risk Argument Day 2: Other Defenses of Meat Consumption Day 3: Consciousness and Rational Belief Day 4: The Vegan life, Abstract Theory, and Moral Motivation Day 5: Health, Religious Arguments, and Progressive Arguments Appendix 1: Recipes Appendix 2: Annotated Bibliography

Michael Huemer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of more than 80 academic articles in ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, and metaphysics, as well as about twelve brilliant and amazing books that you should immediately buy, including Ethical Intuitionism (2005), The Problem of Political Authority (2013), and Knowledge, Reality, and Value (2021).

Praise for the First Edition:"In the future, when people ask me why I don’t eat meat, I will tell them to read this book."-- Peter Singer, from the Foreword

• Day 1: Suffering, Intelligence, and the Risk Argument Day 2: Other Defenses of Meat Consumption Day 3: Consciousness and Rational Belief Day 4: The Vegan life, Abstract Theory, and Moral Motivation Day 5: Health, Religious Arguments, and Progressive Arguments Appendix 1: Recipes Appendix 2: Annotated Bibliography

Michael Huemer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of more than 80 academic articles in ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, and metaphysics, as well as about twelve brilliant and amazing books that you should immediately buy, including Ethical Intuitionism (2005), The Problem of Political Authority (2013), and Knowledge, Reality, and Value (2021).

Praise for the First Edition:"In the future, when people ask me why I don’t eat meat, I will tell them to read this book."-- Peter Singer, from the Foreword

• Day 1: Suffering, Intelligence, and the Risk Argument Day 2: Other Defenses of Meat Consumption Day 3: Consciousness and Rational Belief Day 4: The Vegan life, Abstract Theory, and Moral Motivation Day 5: Health, Religious Arguments, and Progressive Arguments Appendix 1: Recipes Appendix 2: Annotated Bibliography