On Carnism

On Carnism presents a new edition of Plutarch's De Esu Carnium, one of antiquity's most powerful critiques of meat-eating and a foundational text in the history of animal ethics.

This edition features a new introduction and notes by Renan Larue and brings Plutarch's arguments into conversation with the long history of ethical reflection on humanity's treatment of animals.

It also includes two additional works by Plutarch devoted to animals and their moral status, offering a broader view of his remarkably original thinking on animal intelligence, justice, and the human-animal relationship.