The Logic of Vegetarianism (Third Edition)

Henry S. Salt

• Edition: Third Edition
• Publisher: London Vegetarian Society
• Published: 1933
• Length: 54

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). The third edition is revised and abridged.

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

Reviews

• The Logic of Vegetarianism, Essays and Dialogues Review The Vegetarian Messenger, November 1899
• The Logic of Vegetarianism The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review, January 1933