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Reasons Consistently Applied

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I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

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The lifestyle associated with the Sunday roast involves sacrifices that those brought up on fast food are unused to making—mealtimes, manners, dinner-table conversation and the art of cookery itself. Furthermore, I would suggest not only that it is permissible for those who care about animals to eat meat; they have a duty to do so.

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From Today's New York Times

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2, 2009 To the Editor: While Nicolette Hahn Niman’s article demonstrates our folly in oversimplifying solutions to many of our challenges and offers many viable solutions to sustaining our lifestyles in generations to come, she leaves out one very green practice: hunting and fishing. Stephanie Jenkins Highland Park, N.J.,

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Vegetarianism and IQ

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Gale thinks that her study "provides further evidence that people with a higher IQ tend to have a healthier lifestyle." If they are like most people, they believe that a world with less unnecessary suffering is intrinsically better than a world with more unnecessary suffering. Gale's proposed explanation seems quite plausible.