Radical Vegetarianism

a dialectic of diet and ethic

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Radical Vegetarianism

a dialectic of diet and ethic

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“Vegetarians are not a better sort of people, just a better sort of carnivore,” writes Braunstein in Radical Vegetarianism, “and carnivores are just a better sort of cannibal.” In this updated edition of the 1981 classic, Braunstein courageously takes on the canned canards, sacred cows, and wooly thinking of carnivores and vegetarians alike, and proposes a vegetarianism that goes beyond the stereotypes of pot-lucks and Birkenstocks to one that embraces contradiction and candor, or, as Braunstein says (channeling the Ancients), “Gnaw Thyself.”

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Radical vegetarianism: a dialectic of diet and ethic
2009, Lantern Books
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Radical Vegetarianism: A Dialectic of Diet and Ethic
April 1993, Panacea Press
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Radical vegetarianism: a dialectic of diet and ethic
1983, Panjandrum Books
in English - 2nd. rev. ed.
Cover of: Radical Vegetarianism
Radical Vegetarianism: a dialectic of diet and ethic
1981, republished 2010, 1981 by Panjandrum Books, republished 2010 by Lantern Books
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Panjandrum was in Los Angeles, Lantern Books is in NYC

First Sentence

"Americans love animals: as pets, in zoos, at circuses, in the wild, and on farms. Americans especially love farm animals: for breakfast, lunch, and dinner."

Table of Contents

chapter 1. Nutrition in the Light of Vegetarianism: Why not to eat flesh—The body has two healths: the physical and the spiritual. Mere nutrition fails which tends only to the former. Not only is physical health possible through vegetarianism, spiritual health actually demands such a diet.
chapter 2. Ashes to Ashes, Life to Life: Why not to eat flesh, and why to eat fruit—We grow on fruits; fruits grow on trees; trees grow on us. What comes out depends on what goes in. Everything gotten must be given back.
chapter 3. Letter to a Young Vegetarian: What to eat, and how to eat it—The simplest approach to nutrition is the best. The raw facts of a nourishing vegetarian diet are as simple as they are sensible, as delicious as they are nutritious.
chapter 4. Traveling Fast: What not to eat, and how not to eat it—Away from home, maintaining a healthful diet may prove difficult. At such times it may be better not to eat at all. At the right time and place, the silence between the sounds makes the music.
chapter 5. The Milky Way: Why not to drink milk—Lacto-vegetarianism is only a modified carnivorism. Complete vegetarians, also called vegans, abstain not just from animal flesh but from all animal products. What comes from an animal is animal.
chapter 6. Animals and Infidels: Why animals have a right to live—The religions of the West have turned their backs on animals, so we must turn to either the philosophies of the West or the religions of the East. Yet all we really need do is turn to the animals.
chapter 7. Carnivoral Death and Karmic Debt: Why whoever lets animals live will live longer—The less suffering we cause to others, the less we ourselves will suffer. Eater and eaten, killer and killed, are one.
chapter 8. The Illogic of the Ecologic: How to kill less by eating fruits and eating raw—The less we kill, the more that humans and animals have to eat. The human population can grow so long as its proportion of vegetarians increases. Yet such an alternative to world catastrophe may be only a postponement.
chapter 9. The Problem of Being a Flesh Eater: How animals have been denied the right to live—Humans have persisted in carnivorism partially because they fail to acknowledge that eating flesh means killing animals. Our ignorance causes their deaths.
chapter 10. An Apologetic Addendum: Why humans also have rights, and how one of those rights just may be to eat animals—We do not know all the answers; we do not even know all the questions. The butcher is no less a human being than the baker or the candlestick-maker.
Posthumous Postscript. "Animals, My Brethren" by Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz
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Edition Notes

Series
Flashpoint series #6

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
613.2/62/01
Library of Congress
TX392 .B72 1981

The Physical Object

Format
Paper
Number of pages
200

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OL4259155M
ISBN 10
0915572370, 0915572524
ISBN 13
2010 edition: 9781590561515
LCCN
81004724
Library Thing
165471
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1966260

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