Book Club: The Ethics of What We Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason
"The Ethics Of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter" by peter singer and jim mason
description:
Less
concerned with what people choose to eat per se, Singer and Mason make
a case for how people's everyday food choices affect others' lives.
They describe in vivid detail how applying industrial processing
principles to animal husbandry has led to cheap foods whose cost
savings occur at the expense of animals raised for profit and for
product. Using Wal-Mart as an example, they lay out how huge retailers
wield enormous power over prices and compel those far up the chain of
food production and distribution to make unhelpful decisions. They hold
up for admiration a Kansas family that has turned vegan so as not to
participate in this particular destructive cycle of animal and human
exploitation. They also thoughtfully and critically examine the ethical
pros and cons of eating meat in any form. Urban dwellers far removed
from the source of the foods they eat will find Singer and Mason's
descriptions of food production more disturbing and violent than the
quiet, attractive, plastic-wrapped displays in the local supermarket's
pristine meat case.
$2 donation. bring a snack to share!