Book Review: A Critique of the Moral Defense of Vegetarianism

Abstract

Andrew Smith makes his case against V-ism by appeal to (i) plant sentience, and (ii) the Transitivity of Eating principle (by which V-ans eat animals, since animals eat plants). By (i), V-ans are inconsistent in their prohibitions; by (ii) they are incoherent.

But, I argue, Smith and his beloved omnivore animists face similar pressures, insofar as they prohibit cannibalism.