Why I Am a Vegetarian
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| Author | J. Howard Moore |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Vegetarianism, animal ethics |
| Publisher | Purdy Publishing Company |
Publication date | 1895 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (pamphlet) |
| Pages | 44 |
| OCLC | 39674424 |
| Text | Why I Am a Vegetarian at Wikisource |
Why I Am a Vegetarian is an 1895 pamphlet by American zoologist and philosopher J. Howard Moore. Originating in a lecture to the Chicago Vegetarian Society, it sets out ethical, scientific, and humanitarian reasons for a vegetarian diet. Moore presents vegetarianism as an application of the Golden Rule and as consistent with evolutionary theory, and he critiques anthropocentrism. The work was issued by the Purdy Publishing Company and reissued in several formats and editions in the late 1890s, with extracts printed in contemporary periodicals.
Contemporary response included favorable notices in vegetarian and health-reform publications and a mixed review in the Journal of the American Medical Association; it also prompted a published rebuttal by Laurence Gronlund, to which Moore replied.