Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan with Matthew C Halteman

Name: Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan with Matthew C Halteman
Start: 2024-11-14T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Schuler Books (Grand Rapids)

Schedule

Thu Nov 14 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Schuler Books (Grand Rapids) | Grand Rapids, MI

Join us for a lighthearted and honest conversation about going vegan with author Matt Halteman and his new book, Hungry Beautiful Animals.
This event is free to attend, however, it helps us in planning to receive your RSVP. Please register here so we know you plan to join us: https://events.humanitix.com/matthew-c-halteman-sbgr
About the Book:
A heartfelt, humane, and even hilarious account of why rule-obsessed veganism fails and how a focus on flourishing can bring about an abundant future for all
Perhaps you’ve looked at factory farming or climate change and thought, I should become a vegan. And like most people who think that, very probably you haven’t. Why? Well, in our world, roast turkey emanates gratitude, steak confers virility, and chicken soup represents a mother’s love. Against that, simply swapping meat for plants won’t work.

In Hungry Beautiful Animals, philosopher Matthew C. Halteman shows us how—despite all the forces arrayed against going vegan—we can create an abundant life for everyone without using animals for food. It might seem that moral rectitude or environmental judgement should do the trick, but they can’t. Going vegan must be about flourishing, for all life. Shame and blame don’t lead to flourishing. We must do it with joy instead.

Hungry Beautiful Animals is more than philosophy: it’s a book of action, of forgiveness, of love. Funny and wise, this book frees us joyfully to want what we already know we need.
Not able to join us? Order your copy here: https://www.schulerbooks.com/book/9781541602052
About the Author:

Matthew C. Halteman is professor of philosophy at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and fellow in the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK. He is the author of Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation and coeditor of Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments About the Ethics of Eating. He lives in Grand Rapids.