Author: Peter Singer, Jim Mason
Translator: Gyu-jin Ham
Publisher: Sanchaekja
446 pages | 223*143mm
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About This Book
Why Our Food Choices Matter
Ethicist Singer and co-author Mason (Animal Factories) document
corporate deception, widespread waste and desensitization to inhumane
practices in this consideration of ethical eating. The authors examine
three families' grocery-buying habits and the motivations behind those
choices. One woman says she's "absorbed in my life and my family...and I
don't think very much about the welfare of the meat I'm eating," while a
wealthier husband and wife mull the virtues of "triple certified"
coffee, buying local and avoiding chocolate harvested by child slave
labor, though "no one seems to be pondering that as they eat." In
investigating food production conditions, the authors' first-hand
experiences alternate between horror and comedy, from slaughterhouses to
artificial turkey-insemination ("the hardest, fastest, dirtiest, most
disgusting, worst-paid work"). This sometimes-graphic expose is not
myopic: profitability and animal welfare are given equal consideration,
though the reader finishes the book agreeing with the authors'
conclusion that "America's food industry seeks to keep Americans in the
dark about the ethical components of their food choices." A
no-holds-barred treatise on ethical consumption, this is an important
read for those concerned with the long, frightening trip between farm
and plate.
Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the
most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his
coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights
on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it is produced, and
whether it was raised humanely.
The Ethics of What We Eat explores the impact our food choices have on
humans, animals, and the environment. Recognizing that not all of us
will become vegetarians, Singer and Mason offer ways to make healthful,
humane food choices. As they point out: You can be ethical without being
fanatical.
-- From Publishers Weekly
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