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Part 1 A vegetable love: definition of vegetarianism; as part of a more ecological life-style; the habit habit; sub-title examined; Victor Hugo's grande morale. Part 2 The social obligation: economic and population pressures; the need to phase out meat-eating - its disruption of the ecological/environmental balance; wastage of natural resources; plant alternatives; meat analogues; the ecologic of change. Part 3 The aberrant ape: man's pursuit of good health; food's contribution thereto; medicine's empiricism; our physiology; the dangers of ignoring our dietetic limitations; flesh-eating a minority habit; the higher primates; early man; climate and other factors explaining aberrancy; man as brutish predator questioned; spiritual evolution not discounted by physical origins. Part 4 To the cradle from the grave: our obligation to our children; eradication of parental instinct by society's mores; weaning; battles of the plate; vegetarianism in pregnancy; general health of vegetarian children. Part 5 Pathology or hygiene?: orthodox medicine's disregard for nutrition; the pharmacological obsession; natural hygiene; diseases associated with flesh-eating; the diet and health of tribes and other populations; vegetarianism as part of disease-preventive pattern; meat's probable contribution to human aggression. Part 6 Values in perspective: comparative food values; the function of protein and other nutrients; the neglect and importance of plant foods; no one is suggesting lettuce is enough; some fallacies exploded; what Western habits have done for the rest; plant foods to thin the fatties; trust your children; balance and a few basics; avoid getting obsessional. Part 7 The further step: veganism; its logic; exploitation of animals for dairy products is no less than for meat products; the vitamin B12 question. Part 8 Human or humane?: our treatment of animals; the legislative illusion; present educational priorities; cruelty man's worst crime against the environment; the biosphere can do without us; the pursuit of balance; the Club of Rome's view of change; education's role in humanising man; no feeling in animals?; the young's concern with violence and materialism; ecological morality; a humane eclecticism as basis for new unity. Part 9 As old as man: the influence of religion; the more recent past; the seventeenth century to Tolstoy, Gandhi and others; modern writers and media; in summary.