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Eating
Peter Singer
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Description for Eating
Paperback. Explores our eating habits, making us look at what we eat as a moral issue. This book follows three families with varying eating habits, from fast-food eaters to vegans, to explore how the food we eat makes its way to the table, and at what expense. It also offers ways to make choices within the framework of a diet that includes animal products. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
Written with investigative vigour, provocative and controversial but always accessible, Eating is a hard-hitting exploration of our eating habits, making us look at what we eat as a moral issue. Organic foods are the fastest growing section of the food industry, and it is estimated that vegans are now almost as common as vegetarians. Veal consumption in the US has fallen by more than 75% since 1975, and in the UK, sales of free-range eggs have now passed in value sales of eggs from caged hens. Evidently we are concerned. But how concerned should we be about ... Read more
Written with investigative vigour, provocative and controversial but always accessible, Eating is a hard-hitting exploration of our eating habits, making us look at what we eat as a moral issue. Organic foods are the fastest growing section of the food industry, and it is estimated that vegans are now almost as common as vegetarians. Veal consumption in the US has fallen by more than 75% since 1975, and in the UK, sales of free-range eggs have now passed in value sales of eggs from caged hens. Evidently we are concerned. But how concerned should we be about ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099504023
SKU
V9780099504023
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About Peter Singer
Peter Singer has published over 30 books including Writings on an Ethical Life, Animal Liberation, and most recently, The President of Good and Evil. Singer is currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values. He lives in New York City. Jim Mason is an author, speaker, journalist, environmentalist and attorney. ... Read more
Reviews for Eating
In their new book - commonsense in its approach, easy to read, packed with information - Peter Singer and Jim Mason show how market forces inexorably drive farmers toward cruel practices. But their overall message is not bleak. Factory farming is under pressure to justify itself. The day may not be far when we will return to a more ethical ... Read more