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The Kerkini Lake, Greece: Dipped One, Got One

10,000 Birds

The next morning is for the Kerkini Lake, one of the youngest national parks of Greece, protected only ten years ago, in 2006 and inhabited by 11 amphibian, 27 reptilian, 44 mammal and 312 bird species. Eurasian Spoonbills are foraging, some of them literally running through the water chasing some fast food.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

The lifestyle associated with the Sunday roast involves sacrifices that those brought up on fast food are unused to making—mealtimes, manners, dinner-table conversation and the art of cookery itself. Roger Scruton, A Political Philosophy [London and New York: Continuum, 2006], 61-3 [italics in original])

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