Books for learning to argue for animals: answers to the most common objections, the ethical foundations and the psychology behind the habit of eating animals.
How to survive without meat and other inexplicable miracles
Answers to objections
A recent release: answers awkward questions about giving up meat using science and history, without moralizing.
Bookstore ↗A Journey Through Animal Ethics, a 12-volume collection
Answers to objections
The most complete collection in Portuguese: each chapter examines an objection, and volume XII sums up the answers in tables. The basis of the Questão de Ética site, which has an English version.
Read free ↗And win every time
Answers to objections
Goes through the most common objections, from ethics to health, nutrition and the environment, with tips for staying calm in the conversation.
Publisher ↗Portuguese edition of Animal Liberation Now
Ethical foundations
The revised and updated version of the 1975 classic, with recent data on factory farming, animal testing and new technologies.
Publisher ↗And other lies the meat industry tells you
Answers to objections
Takes apart the stories the industry tells about animal farming and shows what actually happens.
Catalog ↗Answers to objections
A clear introduction to animal ethics that answers the objections to ending speciesism, including about wild animals.
Catalog ↗A short introduction to animal ethics: from the classic questions to current debates
Answers to objections
Gathers the arguments used to defend speciesism and presents the objections to each, for general readers and academics.
Review ↗Answers to objections
From the author of the Vegan Sidekick comics: goes through the most common objections, from dismissive reactions to the more elaborate ones, and shows why none justifies exploiting animals.
Catalog ↗Veganism: the many reasons for a more ethical life
Answers to objections
Brings together, in Portuguese, the arguments of the vegan movement, with the references behind each one.
Catalog ↗Why do we eat animals?
Answers to objections
Assesses, one by one, the rationalizations for eating animals in light of the fact that we do not need them to live well.
Review ↗An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals
Answers to objections
Examines the morality of eating animals and answers, one by one, the most common justifications.
Catalog ↗Answers to objections
Examines how the major political theories, such as liberalism, utilitarianism, communitarianism, Marxism and feminism, treat animals, and shows where each fails in excluding them.
Publisher ↗Portuguese edition of Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
Psychology of the habit
Explains carnism, the belief system that makes us love some animals and eat others without noticing the contradiction.
About the book ↗Ethics & Animals: a guide to philosophical argument
Ethical foundations
Presents the main ethical theories applied to animals, from Singer and Regan to the ethics of care, for those who want to argue on philosophical grounds.
About the book ↗Your child or the dog?
Answers to objections
Takes on the burning-house dilemma and shows why a choice in an emergency does not justify exploitation.
Publisher ↗Portuguese edition of Animal Liberation
Ethical foundations
The book that popularized the term "speciesism" and the principle of equal consideration of interests.
About the book ↗The list started from the selection by Vegpedia (in Portuguese) and was completed with other books focused on answering anti-vegan and speciesist arguments. Each title was checked in a catalog, at the publisher or in a review.