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In a world of industrialized farming and feed lots, is eating meat ever a morally responsible choice? Is eating organic or free range sufficient to change the moral equation? Is there a moral cost in not eating meat? As billions of animals continue to be raised and killed by human beings for human consumption, affecting the significance and urgency in answering these questions grow. This volume collects twelve new essays by leading moral philosophers...
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"For nearly a century ecologists have believed that nature is democratic, governed from the bottom up by the amount of solar energy converted to green biomass, the food of herbivores. Eisenberg makes the case for trophic cascades--an alternative view arguing that ecosystems are often organized from the top down by keystone species such as predators--while diplomatically exploring a path for reconciling these disparate views."--Michael Soule, Professor...
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Wohlleben takes readers on a thought-provoking exploration of the vast natural systems that make life on Earth possible. The author describes the interplay between animals and plants and answers such questions as: How do they influence each other? Do lifeforms communicate across species boundaries? And what happens when this finely tuned system gets out of sync? By introducing us to the latest scientific discoveries and recounting his own insights...
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