1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465981903321

Autore

Lestel Dominique

Titolo

Eat this book : a carnivore's manifesto / / Dominique Lestel ; translated by Gary Steiner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-231-54115-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (157 pages)

Collana

Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law

Disciplina

641.3/6

Soggetti

Meat - Moral and ethical aspects

Vegetarianism - Moral and ethical aspects

Human-animal relationships

Animal welfare

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- A Sort of Apéritif -- APPETIZER. How Does One Recognize an Ethical Vegetarian? -- HORS D'OEUVRE. A Short History of Vegetarian Practices -- FIRST COURSE. Some (Good) Reasons Not to Become an Ethical Vegetarian -- SECOND COURSE. The Ethics of the Carnivore -- A SORT OF DESSERT -- POSTFACE -- Notes -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

If we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand our worldview to see how others consume meat ethically and sustainably. The position of vegans and vegetarians is unrealistic and exclusionary. Eat This Book calls at once for a renewed and vigorous defense of animal rights and a more open approach to meat eating that turns us into responsible carnivores. Lestel skillfully synthesizes Western philosophical views on the moral status of animals and holistic cosmologies that recognize human-animal reciprocity. He shows that the carnivore's position is more coherently ethical than vegetarianism, which isolates humans from the world by treating cruelty, violence, and conflicting interests as phenomena outside of



life. Describing how meat eaters assume completely-which is to say, metabolically-their animal status, Lestel opens our eyes to the vital relation between carnivores and animals and carnivores' genuine appreciation of animals' life-sustaining flesh. He vehemently condemns factory farming and the terrible footprint of industrial meat eating. His goal is to recreate a kinship between humans and animals that reminds us of what it means to be tied to the world.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557471903321

Autore

Boczar Tomasz

Titolo

Advances in Sensors and Sensing for Technical Condition Assessment and NDT

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Soggetti

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The adequate assessment of key apparatus conditions is a hot topic in all branches of industry. Various online and offline diagnostic methods are widely applied to provide early detections of any abnormality in exploitation. Furthermore, different sensors may also be applied to capture selected physical quantities that may be used to indicate the type of potential fault. The essential steps of the signal analysis regarding the technical condition assessment process may be listed as: signal measurement (using relevant sensors), processing, modelling, and classification. In the Special Issue entitled "Advances in Sensors and Sensing for Technical Condition Assessment and NDT", we present the latest research in various areas of technology.