How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices re
garding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the anim
al, the sensuous, the social, the cultural, the creative, the emotional and the
intellectual. Thinking seriously about food requires us to consider our relation
ship to nature, to our fellow animals, to each other and to ourselves.
So can
thinking about food teach us about being virtuous, and can what we eat help us
to decide how to live? From the author of The Ego Trick and The Pig that Wants t
o be Eaten comes a thought-provoking exploration of our values and vices. What c
an fasting teach us about autonomy? Should we, like Kant, 'dare to know' cheese?
Should we take media advice on salt with a pinch of salt? And can food be more
virtuous, more inherently good, than art?
