Keywords dehumanization, dementalization, infrahumanization, animals hand kill billions of
animals for food and on the other bring them into the homes and pass laws to protect them …

The central premise of the present chapter is that humans routinely undervalue animals
relative to themselves. This devaluing has implications not only for animals, in terms of …

We, as humans, are deeply fascinated by animals from an early age yet we also in many
ways exploit animals. Eating animals is a particular “blind spot” in our ethical thinking about …

A new collection offering provocative and often counterintuitive conclusions on the ethics of
meat eating In a world of industralized farming and feed lots, is eating meat ever a morally …

Is meat eating permissible, from a moral point of view? This chapter argues that for almost all
the animals we eat, death is not bad. And this is because these animals have no desire to go …

How are (most) people able to both eat animals and claim to love animals? This seeming
paradox between harm and care is fundamentally psychological. In understanding the …

This book is a broad-ranging and provocative study of the human passion for meat. It will
intrigue anyone who has ever wondered why meat is important to us; why we eat some …

From a vital new voice in food ethics comes a smart, nuanced investigation into the current
meat debate. Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel …

Most people both eat animals and care about animals. Research has begun to examine the
psychological processes that allow people to negotiate this “meat paradox.” To understand …

Many people believe that human interests matter much more than the like interests of non-
human animals, and this “speciesist belief” plays a crucial role in the philosophical debate …