From the bloody luxury of meat consumption: Pleas for vegetarianism between outrage and compassion. Are you a vegetarian? There are many reasons: our health, the conditions, and the ecological as well as social consequences of factory farming. But isn't one reason enough: that we have no right to eat animals because we have no right to kill them. And because nothing compels us to do so, least of all our nature. So why aren't you already a vegetarian? Nothing would be more decent and better, for you, for all of us, and for our closest relatives, the animals. Iris Radisch and Eberhard Rathgeb turn the tables: they show that there are no good, no valid reasons to eat animals. They gather texts from literature and philosophy that express the horror and despair over the fact that we do it anyway. Because this question is troubling.