Flexitarianism: A More Moral Dietary Option
It is morally impossible to justify the power wielded by the livestock industry. This paper describes the human, ecological and animal welfare concerns caused by excessive meat production and consumption including climate change, water depletion and degradation, land misappropriation and degradation...
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2014
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| author | Raphaely, Talia Marinova, Dora |
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| description | It is morally impossible to justify the power wielded by the livestock industry. This paper describes the human, ecological and animal welfare concerns caused by excessive meat production and consumption including climate change, water depletion and degradation, land misappropriation and degradation, rainforest destruction, biodiversity & rapid species loss and the significant threats and challenges presented to human health and wellbeing. It offers flexitarianism (flexible or part-time vegetarianism) as a personal opportunity and moral responsibility to combat the destructive duplicity of the global livestock megamachine. Through a personal nutritional paradigm shift and resulting food choices individuals can reclaim the possibility of a more sustainable world and global society. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-340122018-02-06T07:10:34Z Flexitarianism: A More Moral Dietary Option Raphaely, Talia Marinova, Dora water human health biodiversity animal welfare land degradation flexitarianism sustainability vegetarianism climate change livestock It is morally impossible to justify the power wielded by the livestock industry. This paper describes the human, ecological and animal welfare concerns caused by excessive meat production and consumption including climate change, water depletion and degradation, land misappropriation and degradation, rainforest destruction, biodiversity & rapid species loss and the significant threats and challenges presented to human health and wellbeing. It offers flexitarianism (flexible or part-time vegetarianism) as a personal opportunity and moral responsibility to combat the destructive duplicity of the global livestock megamachine. Through a personal nutritional paradigm shift and resulting food choices individuals can reclaim the possibility of a more sustainable world and global society. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34012 10.1504/IJSSOC.2014.057846 InterScience Publishers fulltext |
| spellingShingle | water human health biodiversity animal welfare land degradation flexitarianism sustainability vegetarianism climate change livestock Raphaely, Talia Marinova, Dora Flexitarianism: A More Moral Dietary Option |
| title | Flexitarianism: A More Moral Dietary Option |
| title_full | Flexitarianism: A More Moral Dietary Option |
| title_fullStr | Flexitarianism: A More Moral Dietary Option |
| title_full_unstemmed | Flexitarianism: A More Moral Dietary Option |
| title_short | Flexitarianism: A More Moral Dietary Option |
| title_sort | flexitarianism: a more moral dietary option |
| topic | water human health biodiversity animal welfare land degradation flexitarianism sustainability vegetarianism climate change livestock |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34012 |