With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a “flesh-eating” diet, and his arguments for not eating meat are as compelling today as when they were written. (Lee Smalley )

Latest episodes of the podcast Logic of Vegetarianism by Henry Salt

• INTRODUCTORY
• WHY 'VEGETARIAN'?
• THE RAISON D'ÊTRE OF VEGETARIANISM
• THE PAST AND PRESENT OF VEGETARIANISM
• STRUCTURAL EVIDENCE
• THE APPEAL TO NATURE
• THE HUMANITARIAN ARGUMENT
• PALLIATIONS AND SOPHISTRIES
• THE CONSISTENCY TRICK
• THE DEGRADATION OF THE BUTCHER
• THE ÆSTHETIC ARGUMENT
• THE HYGIENIC ARGUMENT
• DIGESTION
• CONDITIONS OF CLIMATE
• FLESH MEAT AND MORALS
• THE ECONOMIC ARGUMENT
• DOUBTS AND DIFFICULTIES
• BIBLE AND BEEF
• THE FLESH-EATER'S KITH AND KIN
• VEGETARIANISM AS RELATED TO OTHER REFORMS
• CONCLUSION