
The Logic of Vegetarianism (Second Edition), Essays and Dialogues
Henry S. Salt
- Edition: Second Edition
- Publisher: George Bell & Sons Ltd., London
- Published: 1906
- Length: 116
- Format: Hardback
- First Edition
- 1899 Idea Publishing Union Ltd., London, Hardback, 119 pages
Summary
The first edition was published as part of the Vegetarian Jubilee Library. Arguments for vegetarianism: moral, scientific, economic, health, social, and aesthetic. Amazingly comprehensive, devastating critiques of 31 anti-vegetarian arguments (some so silly they are humorous, but many of these arguments still in use).
Content
- Preface
- Introductory
- Why "Vegetarian"?
- The Raison D'Être of Vegetarianism
- The Past and Present of Vegetarianism
- Structural Evidence
- Digestion
- Conditions of Climate
- The Appeal to Nature
- The Humanitarian Argument
- Palliations and Sophistries
- The Consistency Trick
- The Degradation of the Butcher
- The Æsthetic Argument
- The Hygienic Argument
- Flesh-Meat and Morals
- The Economic Argument
- Doubts and Difficulties
- Bible and Beef
- The Flesh-eater's Kith and Kin
- Vegetarianism as Related to Other Reforms
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Index