There Are No Easy Answers When It Comes to Eating Consciously
New book “Messy Eating” gathers academics to discuss the philosophy of eating animals
Few words convey the reality of what it means to eat consciously better than “messy.” From the literal mess one can make of a kitchen and a plate to the often opaque ethicality of buying certain foods (or buying anything at all), there are no easy or clean answers about living and eating consciously. Choosing to be vegan removes questions about animal exploitation but does not clear up issues around human labor rights, land use, economic accessibility, and capitalism. That’s why I was so thrilled to see that Fordham University Press recently released Messy Eating: Conversations on Animals As Food, a collection of interviews with various academics who have made animals studies a part of their work.
“The scholars featured in this collection understand the absence of purity in their interactions with animals not as a moral failure but rather as a starting point from which to consider and negotiate ethical relations as they unfold, thus rejecting any notion of an absolute good.”
