A Critique of the Moral Defense of Vegetarianism

Andrew F. Smith is an assistant professor of English and philosophy at Drexel University, USA. His current research is in environmental philosophy and social and political philosophy. His first book is The Deliberative Impulse: Motivating Discourse in Divided Societies (2011), and he has published broadly on rationality, religion in the public sphere, biblical literalism, homelessness, and food deserts.

1. Unsettling Questions
2. Plant Sentience
3.Animism
4.The Closed Loop
5.Two Objections, One Accommodation
6.Loose Ends
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