In this book, two college students--a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian--discuss this question in a series of dialogues, conducted over four days.

Foreword Peter Singer Day 1: Suffering, intelligence, and the risk argument Day 2: Other defenses of meat consumption Day 3: Consciousness and rational belief Day 4: The vegan life, abstract theory, and moral motivation. Annotated Bibliography Index

Michael Huemer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of more than 70 academic articles in ethics, metaphysics, political philosophy, and epistemology, as well as five other books: Skepticism and the Veil of Perception (2001), Ethical Intuitionism (2005), The Problem of Political Authority (2012), Approaching Infinity (2016), and Paradox Lost (2018).