Not Recommended for Moral or Health Reasons, but Aesthetic Reasons

Fiction has raised many a solid fist against industrial meat production and carnivorous humans: In recent years, novels such as Han Kang's The Vegetarian (2018), Olga Tokarczuk's Before Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2019) and Jean-Baptiste Del Amo's The Kingdom of the Beasts (2022) have renewed ethical reflection on what we put in our bodies, and how we treat animals and nature. But the debate is not new: In Ovid's ancient epic Metamorph…