Philosophy and ethics of animal use and consumption From Pythagoras to Bentham
The human population is projected to rise to 9.15 billion people by 2050, resulting in a projected increase in meat consumption. However, at the same time, the dominant position of meat as the centre of meals is on the decline, resulting in an increasing number of vegetarians and flexitarians in some Western countries. There are several motivations for this trend, including religious, health, moral and environmental considerations. Many of the arguments that are very alive today in the debate follow from those proposed by ancient philosophers and scientists. The aim of this review is to review the ethics of animal use and consumption from the old Greek philosophers (Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Alcmaeon, Anaxagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes, Theophrastus, the Stoics, the Pyrrhonian Skeptics, Plutarch and the Phoenician philosopher Porphyry), the early Christians and the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, to the seventeenth and eighteenth century (Evelyn, Tryon, Descartes, Malebranche, De La Mettrie, Kant, Spinoza and Bentham).
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| Format: | artículo de revisión biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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CAB International
2015
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| Subjects: | Ethics, Philosophy, Animal welfare, Meat consumption, Vegetarianism, Livestock, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12792/3668 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/290295 |
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