Eat Like You Care, An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals
Eat Like You Care, An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals
By Gary Francione and Anna Charlton
A powerful, straightforward book that makes the simple ethical argument — if you love animals, believe animals matter morally, and don’t believe they should experience suffering, pain and death for our pleasure, convenience or entertainment — then we have the moral obligation to stop eating animals.
We already know that we don’t need meat or animal products to live, be healthy or survive; it has been well established and medically proven that a plant-based diet is far healthier and provides all the necessary nutrition we need to live extremely healthy lives, so then why do we eat animals? The book presents two simple principles: 1) That we have a moral obligation not to impose unnecessary suffering on animals, and that we agree it is not necessary to inflict suffering on animals for reasons of our pleasure, entertainment or convenience, and 2) That animals do matter morally, even though humans matter more.
The book addresses in a simple manner, each and every excuse that people commonly use to defend their eating animals, and Francione addresses and refutes each point in a straightforward and concise manner on moral grounds. This is a very readable book in one day, by author Gary Francione, a Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Law and Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University School of Law. He is also the founder of the Rutgers Animal Rights Law Clinic.
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