Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
Dr. lisa kemmerer
ISBN: 978-0199391844
Publisher: Oxford, 2015
Overview
Uniquely, Eating Earth focuses on three subjects that ought to be—but are not—found between the covers of any other single book: animal agriculture, the fishing industry, and hunting. In this compact, easy read Dr. Kemmerer’s concise, complete, and fact-filled chapters provides 44 summary slides and 34 graphs and diagrams to explore the effects of what we choose to eat on deforestation, freshwater loss, dead zones, species extinction, and climate change. With a healthy dose of wry humor, Dr. Kemmerer sets out to answer one clear question: Can an environmentalist who is both sincere and informed legitimately choose to be omnivorous—or even vegetarian?
Book Quotes
“Food choices are the number one determinant of an individual’s environmental footprint.”
— Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
“Eating animals is eating earth. Either the foods we choose are linked with high greenhouse gas emissions, or they are not. Either the foods we serve for lunch cause considerable ecosystem disruption, or they do not. . . . How can we legitimately consider ourselves to be environmentalists if concern for the planet does not guide our most basic daily choices? On what rational grounds would sincere, informed environmentalists choose to support the most environmentally damaging industries and practices with their consumer dollars?”
— Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
“Contemporary environmentalists in the U.S. who align with or support hunters and hunting do so at the expense of their mission—and therefore at the expense of their own integrity.”
— Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
“Whether or not we care, and whether or not we are aware, fish commonly listed on menus are now listed as endangered.”
— Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice