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More Birds Than Bullets: a book review

10,000 Birds

As McMullan tells it, birding goes pretty well with the military lifestyle, at least for himself and a select few others. Jonathan Trouern-Trend’s Birding Babylon: A Soldier’s Journal From Irag , a lovely little 2006 book, is also well worth your time. More Birds Than Bullets is not the first of its genre.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

And I suspect that people become vegetarians for precisely that reason: that by doing so they overcome the residue of guilt that attaches to every form of hubris, and in particular to the hubris of human freedom. Roger Scruton, A Political Philosophy [London and New York: Continuum, 2006], 61-3 [italics in original])

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