| PAGE | |
| Preface | v |
| Introductory | 1 |
| Why "Vegetarian"? | 4 |
| The Raison D'Être of Vegetarianism | 9 |
| The Past and Present of Vegetarianism | 13 |
| Structural Evidence | 18 |
| The Appeal to Nature | 24 |
| The Humanitarian Argument | 29 |
| Palliations and Sophistries | 35 |
| The Consistency Trick | 41 |
| The Degradation of the Butcher | 47 |
| The Æsthetic Argument | 51 |
| The Hygienic Argument | 57 |
| Digestion | 62 |
| Conditions of Climate | 67 |
| Flesh Meat and Morals | 71 |
| The Economic Argument | 77 |
| Doubts and Difficulties | 83 |
| Bible and Beef | 89 |
| The Flesh-eater's Kith and Kin | 95 |
| Vegetarianism as Related to Other Reforms | 101 |
| Conclusion | 109 |
| Index | 115 |