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Only for Dogs and Birders – Kalamas Delta, Greece

10,000 Birds

I reach for my camera, only to realise that the batteries were flat. The building looks like some abandoned sluice tower, now used as a fodder storage, but it offers proper shade, right next to a strange wooden fishing boat, so narrow and lightweight that the mount for outboard engine is on its gunwale, like on a canoe.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

We should not abandon our meat-eating habits, but remoralize them, by incorporating them into affectionate human relations, and using them in the true Homeric manner, as instruments of hospitality, conviviality and peace. I believe, however, that there is another remedy, and one more in keeping with the Judaeo-Christian tradition.

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