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Eating Earth - Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice (Hardcover)
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Eating Earth - Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice (Hardcover)
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Exploring the environmental effects of animal agriculture, fishing,
and hunting, Eating Earth exposes critical common ground between
earth and animal advocacy. The first chapter (animal agriculture)
examines greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, manure and
dead zones, freshwater depletion, deforestation, predator control,
land and useincluding the ranching industries public lands
subsidies. Chapter two first examines whether or not the
consumption of fish is healthy and outlines morally relevant
aspects of fish physiology, then scrutinizes the fishing industry,
documenting the silent collapse of ocean ecosystems and calling
attention to the indiscriminate nature of hooks and nets, including
the problem of bycatch and what this means for endangered species
and fragile seascapes. Chapter three outlines the historic link
between the U. S. Government, wildlife management, and hunters,
then systematically unravels common beliefs about sport hunting,
such as the belief that hunters are essential to wildlife
conservation, that contemporary hunting qualifies as a tradition,
and that hunting is merciful, economical, or rooted in fair chase.
At the end of each chapter, Kemmerer examines possible solutions to
problems presented, such as sustainable meats, organic and local,
grass fed, aquaculture, new fishing technologies, and enhanced
regulations. Eating Earth offers a concise examination of the
environmental effects of dietary choice, clearly presenting the
many reasons why dietary choice ought to be front and center for
environmentalists. Kemmerers writing, supported by nearly 80 graphs
and summary slides, is clear, straightforward, and punctuated with
wry humor.
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