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Deconstructing Spencer's Comment

Animal Person

There is a fine line between optimism and pessimism, it's called realism and (most) vegans have absolutely zero concept of what that is or how it needs to be applied to our daily lifestyles. We are people who believe that using animals when we don't need to, and certainly killing them when we don't need to, isn't right.

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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. Duty requires us, therefore, to eat our friends.

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