The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat

Ben Bramble received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney in 2014. He is a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at Lund University, Sweden. His main research interests are in moral and political philosophy. Bob Fischer earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago; he is now an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University. He works on issues in animal ethics, modal epistemology, moral psychology, and philosophical methodology.

Introduction ; Part I: Defending Meat ; 1. Christopher Belshaw, <"Meat>" ; 2. Donald Bruckner, <"Strict Vegetarianism is Immoral>" ; 3. J. Baird Callicott, <"The Environmental Omnivore's Dilemma>" ; Part II: Challenging Meat ; 4. Julia Driver, <"Individual Consumption and Moral Complicity>" ; 5. Mark Budolfson, <"Is it Wrong to Eat Meat from Factory Farms? If So, Why?>" ; 6. Clayton Littlejohn, <"Potency and Permissibility>" ; 7. Tristram McPherson, <"A Moorean Defense of the Omnivore>" ; 8. Ben Bramble, <"The Case Against Meat>" ; Part III: Future Directions ; 9. Lori Gruen and Robert Jones, <"Veganism as an Aspiration>" ; 10. Neil Levy, <"Vegetarianism: Towards Ideological Impurity>" ; 11. Bob Fischer, <"Against Blaming the Blameworthy>" ; 12. Alexandra Plakias, <"Beetles, Bicycles, and Breath Mints: How 'Omni' Should Omnivores Be? ; Index