“Now we can join Gandhi and Tolstoy and nameless others who encountered this vigorous and invigorating book. Welcome to a company of radicals who believed we could and should stop eating non-human animals. They brought vegetarianism out of history and into the here and now.” -- from the introduction Ethical vegetarianism is no recent development, as this unrivaled historical anthology dramatizes. When it was first published 120 years ago, countless people read and endorsed The Ethics of Diet. But then it became a rare book, hard to find even in libraries. For countless more readers, it is at last available again. In this classic of vegetarian writing, Howard Williams presents a line of thought, a continuous thread, a tradition, a catena of protestation against living on “Butchery.” What he finds striking is the variety of the witnesses, the prophets of “Reformed Dietetics” who have “shrunk from the régime of blood,” including Gautama Buddha, Pythagoras, Plato, Hesiod, Epicurus, Seneca, Ovid, Thomas More, Montaigne, Mandeville, Pope, Voltaire, Swedenborg, Wesley, Rousseau, Shelley, Byron, Lamar-tine, Michelet, Bentham, Sinclair, Schopenhauer, and Thoreau. Their words are accompanied by the vigorous narrative voice of Williams himself, who put to rest, once and for all, the idea that vegetarianism is a fad.

The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-Eating

Howard Williams

Carol J. Adams

Health, Fitness & Dieting

University of Illinois Press

How does someone become a piece of meat?Carol J. Adams answers this question in this provocative book by finding hidden meanings in the culture around us. From advertisements to T-shirts, from billboards to menus, from matchbook covers to comics, images of women and animals are merged - with devastating consequences.Like her groundbreaking The Sexual Politics of Meat, which has been published in two editions, The Pornography of Meat uncovers startling connections:Why pornography demonstrates such a fascination with slaughtering and huntingFixations on women's body parts expressed through ads for the breasts, legs, and thighs of chickens and turkeysAnimals to be eaten as meat presented in seductive poses and sexy clothingBack-entry poses in pornography, implying that women - especially women of color - are like animals: insatiableHow meat advertising draws on X-rated imagesWhy at least one prominent animal-rights group is actually "in bed" with pornographers.With 200 illustrations, this courageous and explosive book establishes why Adams's slide show, upon which The Pornography of Meat is based, is so popular on campuses across North America and is reviled by the groups she takes on with insight and passion. From the rise of chain steakhouses to the language of the hunt, from the halls of government to the practice of artificial insemination on farm animals, The Pornography of Meat shows exactly how harm to others parades as fun.

The Pornography of Meat

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Continuum Intl Pub Group

For 30 years since the publication of her landmark polemic The Sexual Politics of Meat, Carol J. Adams and her readers have continued to document and hold to account the degrading interplay of the language of women and meat in advertising, politics and media. Including over 100 images, the sequel, The Pornography of Meat charts the continued influence of this language and the fight against it.
The Bloomsbury Revelations edition of The Pornography of Meat brings the book up-to-date to include the growth of online media and advertising, the impact of Donald Trump and the alt-right on our political language and the #MeToo movement. Never has this book – or Adams' analysis – been more relevant.

Pornography of Meat (Bloomsbury Revelations)

Bloomsbury Academic

Don't have time to cook? Don't like to follow recipes? Cutting back on meat but don't know what to serve? Want an easy way to eat healthfully? This is the book for you. The lists, charts, and hints in this book will reward you with meals, snacks, and surprises that are as easy to make as they are delicious. Contents include: 
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<li>Two Hundred (and More!) Ways to Eat Like A Vegetarian </li>
<li>How to Cook Like a Vegetarian </li>
<li>Vegetarian Cooking without Recipes </li>
<li>Everything In Its Season </li>
<li>Thinking and Feeling Like a Vegetarian, If You Want To... </li>
<li>Appendix I: Resources for Eating, Thinking, and Feeling Like a Vegetarian </li>
<li>Appendix II: Guide to Ingredients</li>
</ul>

How to Eat Like a Vegetarian Even If You Never Want to Be One: More Than 250 Shortcuts, Strategies, and Simple Solutions

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Patti Breitman

Quick & Easy

Lantern Books

"[Adams] advocates an activism that reveals the truth about animal suffering and about women's lives." Library Journal"This book very usefully brings together Adams's thinking on animal defense as it has developed since the 1990 publication of her first book The Sexual Politics of Meat." The Animals' Agenda"Adams does for women and animals what the author of Our Bodies, Ourselves did for women's health. She proves insightfully that the 'unexamined meal is not worth eating.' " Mary E. Hunt"Adams's thinking is brilliant and original, and this volume belongs in every women's studies, theology, and environmental ethics collection." Choice"Carol Adams looks unsparingly at the way our culture has conditioned us to accept as normal the staggering cruelty inflicted daily on millions of animals. From theology to nutrition, from reproductive rights to pornographic images, she shows how assumed male superiority to women and other others pervades our lives." Jane Tompkins

Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals

Women's Studies

If you're 50 or over and thinking (or already committed to!) a vegan diet and lifestyle that will benefit your health, animals, and the planet, look no further than this essential all-in-one resource. Authors Carol J. Adams, Patti Breitman, and Virginia Messina bring 75 years of vegan experience to this book to address the unique concerns of those coming to veganism later in life, with guidance on: • The nutritional needs that change with aging • How your diet choices can reduce your odds of developing heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and other conditions • Easy steps for going vegan, including how to veganize your favorite recipes and navigate restaurant menus, travel, and more • How to discuss your decision to go vegan with friends and family • The challenges of caring for aging or ailing relatives who are not vegan • And many other topics of particular interest to those over 50. Warmly written, down-to-earth, and filled with practical advice, plus insights from dozens of seasoned over-50 vegans, Never Too Late to Go Vegan makes it easier than ever to reap the full rewards of a whole-foods, plant-rich diet.

Never Too Late to Go Vegan: The Over-50 Guide to Adopting and Thriving on a Plant-Based Diet

Virginia Messina

Parenting & Relationships

The Experiment

Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with other Animals and The Earth [Paperback]

BLOOMSBURY

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