From Vegan Ethics: AMORE

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Internationally known for her work in animal ethics, Professor Emeritus Dr. Lisa Kemmerer retired in 2020 to become a full-time activist as founder and director of the information-sharing non-profit, Tapestry, which envisions a world where all life and the earth itself are free from exploitation—a vegan world where no living being suffers harm in the name of religion and where anymals and earth are treated with care, dignity, and respect. Three strands shape Tapestry—research and education, work in the field, and the arts. Education is core: Tapestry research discovers, compiles, and shares well-vetted information with those who are best positioned to bring change: scholars and students, activists, and for the religion program, people of faith and religious leaders. Tapestry’s in-the field Hospitality Challenge exponentially increases vegan offerings in target communities/restaurants; Tapestry’s work in the arts (paintings and poetry) inspires kindness, points to greater justice, and helps to build peace.

As a philosopher activist, “Dr. K” taught ethics and religious studies for 20 years and has written thirteen movement-shaping books, including Vegan Ethics: AMORE (core for any exploration of animal studies, ethics in general, or intersectionality), Animals and World Religions (the only systematic, comprehensive examination of religious ethics and animals across every major religion), In Search of Consistency (which provides not only a systematic coverage of animal ethics, but also presents Kemmerer’s own moral theory), Oppressive Liberation (providing the only hard data on sexism in animal activism), and Eating Earth (a comprehensive and timely examination of environmental ethics and dietary choice, including chapters focused on climate change, earth’s waterways, and hunting).

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“What we eat either perpetuates oppression and injustice, or we choose vegan.” Vegan Ethics: AMORE—Five Reasons to Choose Vegan

“Science has linked serious and common medical problems with omnivorous and vegetarian diets and with factory farming. Some of the world’s biggest killers (including heart disease, a number of common cancers, obesity, diabetes, and infections from pathogens such as E. coli) are more likely for those who consume flesh, diary, or eggs. Anymal agriculture is implicated in a number of additional serious and deadly medical concerns, including respiratory diseases, antibiotic resistance, and zoomorphic diseases . . . . What we have to ask ourselves is whether or not omnivory and vegetarianism are worth dying for.” from Vegan Ethics: AMORE—Five Reasons to Choose Vegan

“Carnivorous and vegetarian diets are the primary contributors to climate change, freshwater depletion and water pollution, habitat loss and deforestation, soil degradation, and ecosystem and species manipulation, damage, and destruction. . . . In our daily lives, choosing vegan is the most important decision anyone makes on behalf of anymals and the environment.” Vegan Ethics: AMORE—Five Reasons to Choose Vegan

Vegan Ethics: AMORE—Five Reasons to Choose Vegan

“Choosing to consume flesh, dairy, or eggs destroys anymals, human beings, the environment, and ecosystems. Every vegan bite is a vote against exploitation of (and premature death for) farmed anymals. Every green bite improves human health and protects marginalized people, including those experiencing food shortages, employees in anymal industries, and those marginalized when capitalism focuses on production and reproduction. Therefore, it cannot be surprising that a plant-based diet aligns with religious ethics worldwide, which teach compassion and attentiveness to the needs of those most vulnerable, requiring human beings to look after anymals and care for the natural world. Given that choosing vegan is the most effective way to minimize climate change, freshwater depletion, deforestation, water pollution, and desertification, all of which lead to species extinctions, it stands to reason that religious ethics in contemporary times require choosing a vegan diet. Choosing to eat beans and rice, bread and peanut butter, or potatoes and lentils may seem a small act, but every vegan bite is a vote against suffering, disease, premature death, and a wrecked planet.“

From Vegan Ethics: AMORE

“A profound exploration of compassion and consequences. . . . Clear and concise prose, incorporating graphic details and not shying away from discussing the harsh realities of factory farming, mass fishing, and hunting. . . . Lisa Kemmerer's extensive experience in the field of ethics and animals is evident throughout the book.” Vegan Visibility

Vegan Ethics: AMORE explores the many interwoven threads of oppression that bind all who are denigrated and marginalized, simultaneously harming all living beings and the planet. In the process, Vegan Ethics: AMORE demonstrates and clarifies both the moral importance of choosing vegan and the moral importance of adopting and maintaining a broader social justice platform. Core reading for anyone interested in animal-studies, environmental philosophy, intersectionality, social justice, religious studies, animal activism, and ethics in general

“This book is a gift for the intellect and the soul.” Rev. Judy McCoy Carman

“A compelling discussion of animals’ well-being, human health, human oppression, religious commitment, and the urgent need to save the planet.” PETAlambs

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