Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat
Animal Ethics
JUNE 17, 2011
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. If meat-eating should ever become confined to those who do not care about animal suffering then compassionate farming would cease. Duty requires us, therefore, to eat our friends.
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