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Castellare di Castellina: Chianti Classico (2019)

10,000 Birds

This theatrical personality was first introduced to a wider audience in Bill Buford’s excellent 2006 culinary memoir Heat , which depicts Cecchini as uncompromising – and perhaps a bit mad – genius of butchery, but one with the utmost reverence for his craft and the respectful use of the animals we eat. Good birding and happy drinking!

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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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