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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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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. And outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a dog rescued an abandoned baby by placing him safely among her own newborn puppies.

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