Ethics of vegetarianism and veganism

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June 13, 2026

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June 13, 2026

References from Heumer’s Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism:

Title	Author	Year
Animal Liberation	Singer	1975
Animal Minds	Searle	1984
Vegetarianism	Rachels	2011
Pains and pain sensations	Nelkin	1986
Animal Pain	Allen	2004
Brute experience	Carruthers	1989
The Emotional Lives of Animals	bekoff	2008
Taking animals seriously: mental life and moral status	DeGrazia	1996
Comparing lives and epistemic limitations: A critique of regan’s lifeboat from an unprivileged position	Abbate	2015
Animal pain and welfare: Can pain sometimes be worse for them than for us?	Akhtar	2011
The animals issue: Moral theory in practice	Carruthers	1992
Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?	Waal	2017
Why animal suffering matters: Philosophy, theology, and practical ethics	Linzey	2009
Puppies, pigs, and people: Eating meat and marginal cases	Norcross	2009
Beyond prejudice: The moral significance of human and nonhuman animals	Pluhar	1995
Created from animals: The moral implications of Darwinism	Rachels	1990
The case for animal rights	Regan	2004
The use of nonhuman animals in biomedical research	Ringach	2011
Eating Animals	Foer	2009
Food, animals, and the environment: An ethical approach	Schlottmann and Sebo	2018
The New Chimpanzee: A Twenty-First-Century Portrait of Our Closest Kin	Stanford	2018
Is it wrong to eat meat from factory farms? If so, why?	Budolfson	2015
The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research	Cohen	1986
Collective responsibility and moral vegetarianism	Hudson	1993
Vegetarianism and virtue: Does consequentialism demand too little?	Nobis	2002
Moral agents and moral patients	Pluhar	1988
Vegetarianism, causation and ethical theory	Shafer-Landau	1994
Why it’s ok to eat meat	Shahar	2021
Politico-Moral Apathy and Omnivore’s Akrasia: Views from the Rationalist Tradition	Aaltola	2015
Why we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows: An introduction to carnism	Joy	2009
Empathy: Philosophical and psychological perspectives	Coplan and Goldie	2011
The Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain and Science	Rollin	1998
Veganism, (Almost) Harm-Free Animal Flesh, and Nonmaleficence: Navigating dietary ethics in an unjust world	Abbate	2020
Moral vegetarianism from a very broad basis	DeGrazia	2009
Dignitarian hunting: A rights-based defense	Demetriou and Fischer	2016
The Moral Significance of Animal Pain and Animal Death	Harman	2011
Insects have the capacity for subjective experience	Klein and Barron	2016
Why Abortion is Immoral	Marquis	1989
Why it is morally good to eat (certain kinds of) meat: The case for entomophagy	Meyers	2013
The significance of death for animals	Norcross	2012
The basic argument for vegetarianism	Rachels	2016
A critique of the moral defense of vegetarianism	Smith	2016
‘Green’ Eggs and Ham? The Myth of Sustainable Meat and the Danger of the Local	Stanescu	2011
Killing happy animals: Explorations in utilitarian ethics	Visak	2011