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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

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

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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. This precept is variably stated as follows: Avoid killing or harming any living being. That's right, free! I undertake the precept to refrain from destroying living creatures.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

10,000 Birds

Interestingly, Black-winged Stilts display laterality – that is, they preferentially use one eye (the right one) to find prey. This one seems to wonder about whether eating flies is the right lifestyle choice though. Well, Nanhui had some this month. And yes, they do look nice when they are young and in their prime.

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