The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves by Sanbonmatsu, John
The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves by Sanbonmatsu, John

The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves

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The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves by Sanbonmatsu, John

The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves

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The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves by Sanbonmatsu, John

The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves

$47.50
Author: John Sanbonmatsu
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Offers the most powerful case yet for ending our exploitation of animals for food

Millions of Americans see themselves as "conflicted omnivores," worrying about the ethical and environmental implications of their choice to eat animals. Yet their attempts to justify their choices only obscure the truth of the matter: in John Sanbonmatsu's view, killing and eating animals is unethical, regardless of whether they are "free range" or factory farmed. Shattering the conventional wisdom around the meat economy, he reframes the question of animal agriculture from one of "sustainability" to one of existential and moral purpose, presenting a powerful case for the total abolition of the animal economy. In a rejoinder to Michael Pollan and other critics who have told us that we can have our meat and our consciences, too, he shows why "humane meat" is always a contradiction in terms.

The Omnivore's Deception provides a deeply observed philosophical meditation on the nature of our relationship with animals. Peeling back the myriad layers of myth, falsehoods, and bad faith that keep us eating meat, the book offers a novel perspective on our troubled relations with animals in the food economy. The problem with raising and killing animals for food isn't just that it's "bad for the environment," but the wrong way to live a human life.

A tour de force of moral philosophy and cultural critique, The Omnivore's Deception will change the way we think about meat, animals, and human purpose.

Author: John Sanbonmatsu
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 06/17/2025
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781479825967

About the Author
John Sanbonmatsu is Professor of Philosophy at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA. He is the editor of Critical Theory and Animal Liberation and author of The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject.
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