Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism

Michael Huemer's Socratic dialogue arguing that factory farming is morally wrong and that consistent ethical principles require vegetarianism.

Dialogue format applied to animal ethics: Huemer constructs conversations between characters with different positions, walking through the logic of animal suffering, consistency requirements, and the difficulty of morally distinguishing human and animal suffering at scale. The book's strength is forcing the interlocutor (and reader) to apply principles consistently — most objections to vegetarianism rely on double standards. One of the most philosophically rigorous popular treatments of the animal ethics question.