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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A beautifully written and contrarian narrative about what it means to hunt in America today. Not just a personal memoir, this book also explores the tension between hunters and environmentalists, and new models of sustainable and ethical food procurement.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Meat Planet explores the quest to grow meat in laboratories--a substance sometimes called "cultured meat"--And asks what it means to imagine that this is the future of food. This book takes the reader on a tour of the laboratories, kitchens, public debates, and media events that may launch this novel food technology. While pundits and entrepreneurs promote cultured meat as a solution to the ethical and environmental problems of industrial meat, Meat...
4) The ethical meat handbook: from sourcing to butchery, mindful meat eating for the modern omnivore
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this 2nd edition of The Ethical Meat Handbook author Meredith Leigh argues that by assuming responsibility for our food and the route by which it gets there, animals can be an optimal source of food, fiber, and environmental management. Featuring 100+ recipes, and discussions around responsible meat production and economics."--
5) Tenderloin
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Pim is a delicate youth—stringy, solemn, and prone to bouts of unexplained weeping. When he enrolls in trade school as an apprentice butcher, his mentors have low expectations, but his lanky body conceals a peculiar flame: a passionate devotion to animals. In an industry that strives to distance the chopping block from the dinner plate, his ardor might seem like a handicap, but Pim rises through the knife-wielding ranks with a barely-tethered zeal....
Author
Publisher
Vermilion
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in. Our choices can help alleviate the most pressing issues we face today: the climate crisis, infectious and chronic diseases, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation. Undeniably, these issues can be uncomfortable to learn about but the benefits of doing so cannot be overstated. It is quite literally a matter of life and death. Through exploring the major...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
In a world of industrialized farming and feed lots, is eating meat ever a morally responsible choice? Is eating organic or free range sufficient to change the moral equation? Is there a moral cost in not eating meat? As billions of animals continue to be raised and killed by human beings for human consumption, affecting the significance and urgency in answering these questions grow. This volume collects twelve new essays by leading moral philosophers...
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