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On Abstinence from Eating Animals is an influential historical document and includes many of the same arguments used modernly in support of vegetarianism. [20] While Porphyry did not advocate for changing existing customs and laws, his opposition to traditional animal sacrifices was a stance that "must have seemed alarmingly revolutionary" to ...
The book argues on physiological grounds that an animal diet is not natural for mankind and is a cause of disease and suffering. [4] [2] [5] The book was declined by many publishers. It was published by Sir Richard Phillips, a vegetarian, in 1802. [4] It is one of the first works to argue for vegetarianism from an ethical basis.
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slaughter. [1] [2] A person who practices vegetarianism is known as a vegetarian. Vegetarianism may be adopted for various reasons.
Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment.
Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse, animal neglect or animal cruelty, ... and encouraged vegetarianism or veganism. Examples include Buddhism, ...
Due to his views on nature conservation, opposition of cruelty to animals, vegetarianism, he was considered an early advocate of social ecology, green anarchism, and animal rights movements. [5] Reclus died the year of the publication of The Meat Fetish .
Abolitionism or abolitionist veganism is the animal rights based opposition to all animal use by humans. Abolitionism intends to eliminate all forms of animal use by maintaining that all sentient beings, humans or nonhumans, share a basic right not to be treated as properties or objects.
Roberta Kalechofsky (May 11, 1931 – April 5, 2022) [2] was an American writer, feminist and animal rights activist, focusing on the issue of animal rights within Judaism and the promotion of vegetarianism within the Jewish community.