Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat
Animal Ethics
JUNE 17, 2011
Piety is the remedy for religious guilt, and to this emotion we are all witting or unwitting heirs. Roger Scruton, A Political Philosophy [London and New York: Continuum, 2006], 61-3 [italics in original]) To such a question it is always possible to respond with a shrug of the shoulders. Duty requires us, therefore, to eat our friends.
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