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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Each year, 'food animals' suffer and die by the billions, but they do so one by one.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

Piety is the remedy for religious guilt, and to this emotion we are all witting or unwitting heirs. Furthermore, I would suggest not only that it is permissible for those who care about animals to eat meat; they have a duty to do so. To such a question it is always possible to respond with a shrug of the shoulders.

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