The Impeachment of Man - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0939482339 ISBN 13: 9780939482337

Synopsis

Impeachment of Man is National Socialist philosopher Savitri Devi's most intensely personal work, arguing her case for animal rights, environmental protection, vegetarianism, and anti-vivisection, alongside a recognition of racial realities and the requirements of the natural cycle of demands for food and sustenance. Starting with a comparison of attitudes towards animals by the world's major religions-and focusing on Christianity-Devi shows that all the major belief systems have rejected the principle of animal rights. She argues passionately for a new environmental approach, one which she admits will be very difficult to achieve, but which she feels is the only way to achieve a natural balance between the world of animals and man, which after all is one and the same. "Our idea, put in a nutshell, is: no exploitation of animals whatsoever, and as little exploitation of plants as possibly there can be to keep both animals and men alive and healthy.. . . Our sense of the unity of all life seems to us no excuse for not believing in the fundamental inequality of plants, as well as we certainly do in that of animals and also of men and races of men. We want a society in which not only would slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories be remembered with general horror and disgust - and the civilizations that tolerated them be looked down upon as inferior civilizations."-from the conclusion.

Edition details

• Publication date: 1802
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0939482339
• ISBN 13: 9780939482337
• Binding: Paperback