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Author: Charles Horn
Reviewed by: Robert Grillo,
Free From Harm
Meat Logic: The Book that Examines Our Rationalizations for Eating Animals
While much animal advocacy justifiably focuses on our emotional connections
to animals, Meat Logic: Why We Eat Animals by author Charles Horn, reveals
that many rationalizations for eating animal products are actually based on
appeals to reason or logic and therefore may not be effectively addressed
with emotional appeals alone. This includes the many naturalistic fallacies
and pseudo-scientific claims such as “we have evolved to eat meat,” “eating
animals is the basis for our higher consciousness and/or more advanced
brains,” and “animals eat other animals; so it’s all part of the natural
order for humans to eat other animas as well.”
Meat Logic evaluates an exhaustive set of these rationalizations against the
growing awareness that eating animals is simply not necessary for good
health and long life. The book is written in a language that is both easily
approachable and yet rich with meaning. Other more scholarly papers have
addressed these rationalizations as well, but Meat Logic illuminates them
with striking clarity.
The book opens with an overview of the most widely recognized animal rights
positions to provide novice readers with a foundation for understanding how
the debate over eating animals has evolved. In the core section that
follows, each rationalization is identified and examined one by one,
culminating in a chapter called Meat Logic which masterfully distills all of
the major points mentioned earlier in just a few salient pages.
If you’re already an animal advocate seeking more effective ways of
addressing barriers to veganism, you will not only want to read this book
for its fresh perspective, but keep it closely on hand to reference whenever
you need some inspiration and direction in discussions with others. And for
those who are simply curious about the subject of why we eat animals, they
will find challenging and persuasive insights that could very well change
their hearts and minds, inspiring them to take a fresh look at their food
choices.
For more, read Does Evolution Have a Gun to Our Head to Eat Animals?
Charles Horn is an award-winning and Emmy-nominated writer. He has written for the wildly popular Robot Chicken and Robot Chicken: Star Wars as well as the hit animated sitcom Fugget About It. He also has a Ph.D. from Princeton University and holds five degrees in engineering and mathematics.
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