article thumbnail

On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

But I found that if my goal was for my message to be received, I had to judiciously use accurate terms because there was an intense emotional reaction to them that prevented the message from being received intact, or unadulterated by the emotional baggage. Put simply, many people just can't handle the truth--or too much of it at once.

Animal 100
article thumbnail

Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

Piety is the remedy for religious guilt, and to this emotion we are all witting or unwitting heirs. 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.

Meat 40