Follows three families with varying eating habits, from fast-food eaters to
vegans. Using their everyday shopping lists as a launch pad, this book explores
how the food we eat makes its way to the table, and at what expense. It offers
ways to make ethical choices within the framework of a diet that includes
animal products.We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of morality - that our
decisions about food might be morally right - or reprehensible. Stealing,
lying, hurting people - these acts are clearly related to our moral character.
But eating - that essential part of life in which everyone participates? Have a
politician's prospects ever been damaged by revelations about their diet? Yet
today organic foods are the fastest growing section of the food industry, and
it is estimated that vegans are now almost as common as vegetarians. Veal
consumption in the US has fallen by more than 75 per cent since 1975, and in
the UK, sales of free range eggs have now surpassed in value sales of eggs from
caged hens. Evidently we are concerned - we are even prepared to pay more for a
hen's quality of life. But how concerned should we be about where our food
comes from? Does the food we buy really affect the world around us? And can our
individual decisions about food contribute to a sustainable future? In
"Eating", Singer and Mason follow three families with varying eating habits,
from fast-food eaters to vegans.; Using their everyday shopping lists as a launch pad, the book explores how
the food we eat makes its way to the table, and at what expense. The authors
peel back each layer of food production, from visits to chicken, cattle, and
fish farms to observe animal treatment; studies of labor and trade, and how
they ought to factor into our buying choices; an examination of the true impact
of genetic modification; and an exploration of the environmental effects that
modern food manufacturing can generate. Recognising that we are not all likely
