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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

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. If meat-eating should ever become confined to those who do not care about animal suffering then compassionate farming would cease.

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Vegetarianism and IQ

Animal Ethics

Gale thinks that her study "provides further evidence that people with a higher IQ tend to have a healthier lifestyle." Given that belief, they no doubt also believe that it is wrong to knowingly contribute to unnecessary suffering. Gale's proposed explanation seems quite plausible.