Dlaczego fleksiweganizm? [Recenzja książki Petera Singera Why Vegan? Eating Ethically. New York–London: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020]

Dariusz Gzyra

doi:10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2022.09.09

Published: 2022-06-22

No. 1 (9) (2022)

Why Flexi-Veganism? [A Review of Peter Singer’s book Why Vegan? Eating Ethically. New York–London: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020]

Dariusz Gzyra

Website: http://gzyra.net

Section: REVIEWS

https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2022.09.09

Abstract

Peter Singer is one of the most influential philosophers alive. Since the mid-1970s, his ethical considerations related to the relationship between man and other sentient animals have been an extremely important point of reference for discussions, academic and otherwise. Over the several decades of Singer’s philosophical activity, however, the social conditions and status of some practices have changed. This is also the case of the practice of veganism, a topic to which Singer’s book Why Vegan? Eating Ethically seems to be devoted. In none of his previous publications has Singer analyzed in an in-depth and exhaustive way the theory and practice of veganism, a fact which had raised the public’s expectations for Why Vegan? Unfortunately, the analysis of this book reveals its shortcomings and deficiencies.

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veganism , flexi-veganism , Peter Singer , ethics , food

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Gzyra, D. (2022). Why Flexi-Veganism? [A Review of Peter Singer’s book Why Vegan? Eating Ethically. New York–London: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020]. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (1 (9), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2022.09.09

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Dariusz Gzyra

d.gzyra@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4659-3262

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Pedagogical University of Cracow Poland

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Dariusz Gzyra – philosopher, publicist, and social activist. His book Dziękuję za świńskie oczy. Jak krzywdzimy zwierzęta [Thank You for the Pig’s Eyes. How We Harm Animals] (Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, 2018) was shortlisted for the Polityka’s Passport award. Member of the Polish Ethical Society and the Laboratory of Animal Studies – Third Culture at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Author of several dozen scientific articles. Lecturer at the Faculty of Artes Liberales of the University of Warsaw in the
field of anthrozoology. Member of the teaching staff of interdisciplinary postgraduate studies in animal law at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. Editor of the Ethics of Animal Rights section of the journal Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies. His interests include relations between man and other animals in the light of contemporary ethical and political concepts and veganism studies.

No. 1 (9) (2022)
Published: 2022-06-30

ISSN: 2719-2687

eISSN: 2451-3849

10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA

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