2nd Edition

Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism

By Michael Huemer Copyright 2025
172 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Worldwide every year, 83 billion animals are slaughtered on factory farms, at the end of brief lives full of suffering. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry? In this book, two college students – a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian – discuss this question in a series of dialogues conducted over five days. Issues covered include: how intelligence affects the badness of pain,... Read more

Foreword by Peter Singer         

Preface           

Acknowledgements

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

Index

Biography

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