Animal Suffering, Fast Food and Morals

Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

It is asking the burger-stuffer to come clean ; to show just why it is that his greed should be indulged in this way, and just where he fits into the scheme of things, that he can presume to kill again and again for the sake of a solitary pleasure that creates and sustains no moral ties.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

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