Ethical Veganism, Virtue Ethics, and the Great Soul

Millions of animals are raised for food, leading to environmental degradation, animal suffering, and health problems. Ethical veganism is the best solution, avoiding all animal products and by-products, but it is controversial. A virtue-oriented approach to animal treatment can help people see that raising and using animals for food is unfair, callous, and self-indulgent.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 214 pages
Publication date: 04 March 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Millions of animals are brought into existence and raised for food every year, leading to three serious problems: environmental degradation, animal suffering, and health issues. Intensive animal farming contributes to greenhouse gases, land and water degradation, biodiversity loss, coral reef degeneration, and deforestation. Raising animals for food causes millions of animals to suffer and be killed, and consumption of meat and animal products is linked with heart disease, diabetes, and various cancers. A global change in the way that animals are treated is imperative, and ethical veganism is the right solution. Ethical veganism avoids all animal products and by-products, but some moral philosophers have framed it in terms of animals having the same fundamental rights as humans, which is controversial. The view that animals have rights is not capable of generating the moral duty to embrace ethical veganism. The answer is to adopt a virtue-oriented approach to the treatment of animals, which enables people to see that raising and using animals for food is unfair, callous, and self-indulgent.

Weight: 332g
Dimension: 167 x 325 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781498590037