Kathryn Paxton George is a contemporary feminist philosopher best known for her critique of ethical vegetarianism on feminist and cross-cultural grounds. In her landmark work 'Animal, Vegetable, or Woman?' (2000), she argues that universal prescriptions for plant-based diets fail to account for the physiological and socioeconomic constraints facing women, children, and people in developing regions. Her work sits at the intersection of feminist ethics, animal ethics, and moral epistemology.
Authored 'Animal, Vegetable, or Woman? A Feminist Critique of Ethical Vegetarianism' (SUNY Press, 2000)
Challenged Peter Singer's and Tom Regan's universalist arguments for vegetarianism on feminist grounds
Argued that moral theories about diet must account for gendered, developmental, and cross-cultural nutritional differences
Contributed to feminist critiques of impartiality and abstraction in mainstream analytic ethics