Here is the list and these can be searched in the library catalogue as well. Dominique lestel s short but provocative volume eat this book. Witty and comical yet always serious in its defense of meat eating, dominique lestel s book is a pure joy to read. The focus of eat this book is to serve as a challenge to what dominique lestel calls ethical vegetarians, those vegetarians who believe that eating meat should be a crime against biology. In eat this book, tyler draws inspiration from kitchens around the world to enliven americas favorite foods in more than 150 new real kitchen recipes for everyday occasions. Discover book depositorys huge selection of dominique lestel books online. Dominique lestel, author and gary steiner, translator. More than 15 million users have used our bookshelf platform over the past year to improve their learning experience and outcomes.
Now you can wake up tired weeknight chicken with the zing of north african spices. Eat this book dominique lestel 9780231172967 netgalley. Lestel skillfully synthesizes western philosophical views on the moral status of animals and holistic cosmologies that recognize humananimal reciprocity. Vitalsource is the leading provider of online textbooks and course materials. This book adds to a contentious but important topic meat eating. Eat this book is philosopher dominque lestels contribution to an. Theory, culture, science, and law kindle edition by dominique lestel, gary steiner. His text raises some difficult questions for abolitionists concerning the metaphysical and spiritual groundings of their ethicopolitical project. Eat this book calls at once for a renewed and vigorous defense of animal rights and a more open approach to meat eating that turns us into responsible carnivores. A carnivores manifesto, by dominique lestel, translated by gary steiner.
Theory, culture, science, and law dominique lestel, gary steiner on. A carnivores manifesto critical perspectives on animals. Recently acquired titles in the iihs library are available to readers to loan. Eat this book calls at once for a renewed and vigorous defense of animal rights. Eat this book is a refreshing and engaging appraisal of ethical vegetarianism and, by association, the more encompassing field of animal ethics. Brett buchanan, associate professor of philosophy at laurentian university. In eat this book, french philosopher and ethologist dominique lestel proposes a very controversial essay that has gained attention since it was originally published in 2011. If we want to improve the treatment of animals, dominique lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand our worldview to see how others consume meat ethically and sustainably. If we want to improve the treatment of animals, dominique lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand our. Lestel argues that vegetarians dont really have a proverbial leg to stand on it, if they truly think through their assumptions.
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