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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

If we value animal life and animal comfort, therefore, we should endorse our carnivorous habits, provided it really is life , and not living death, on which those habits feed. From the point of view of religion, however, the question presents a challenge. Duty requires us, therefore, to eat our friends.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on "Humane Slaughter"

Animal Ethics

Salt , The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues [London: The Ideal Publishing Union, 1899], 51-2 [italics in original])

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal. One argument is this: The present practice of treating animals used for food is immoral and should be changed. Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism. 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.