Greenblade - creation - faith - justice

i very love your own posting style, very charming, don't give up and also keep creating mainly because it just simply well worth to look through it. looking forward to look at additional of your own stories, goodbye :)

Matt brings up images of tables, tabling, gathering, and ruminating that could use more exploration. But the final title has got to have fewer syllables.

If this book is really about eating animals, you should say so. If dealing with the ethics of eating more broadly is too big a task perhaps you could call it An Ethic of Eating. I think it is misleading to choose a title like The Ethics of Eating if you are focusing on one issue within that broad spectrum. 

I would love to see you philosophers dealing with food distribution, poverty, food insecurity, use of tax dollars to support the production of empty calories, the dumping of unhealthy but subsidized food on the poor, the locking up traditional seed knowledge by large corporations, etc., etc., etc. There is just so much involved in The Ethics of Eating. It does not and cannot come down to one issue.

Thanks for the tip anonanon, I've just ordered Kelhoffer's book.  So I gather that no one thinks Matt's suggestion is a good one?  There may be some essays that have to do with the ethics (or even aesthetics) of eating more broadly, but I do think that we want to focus on animals for the most part.  Otherwise the task would simply be too big.  I like your suggestion, however, Stephanie.  Is there a way to narrow it a bit? 

I was also thinking about "Just Eating: Philosophy, Ethics, and Food."

Hey Andrew -- Have you read Jim Kelhoffer's (another Wheaton grad) book about the diet of John the Baptist?  Honey and locusts and such.  Thought you might find it interesting.

I think it depends upon what the book is. If an editor suggested "On Eating Animals" it sounds like the book isn't about the broad spectrum of ethical approaches to eating. If that is the case, I would say "On Eating Animals" is a good title (although yes, it is potentially confusing).  I have to have more information on the content of this book, though, before I can comment.

 I would suggest steering clear of putting "animals" in the title because that may turn people off before they even look at the table of contents.  Since you are involved, I am guessing that this is not just going to be only about the philosophical arguments for a plant-based diet (as I would expect from Matt), but about being more conscious of what one eats.  So it might be interesting to use "Conscientious" in the title, like "Conscientious Consumption: Philosophy and Ethics of Eating".