Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists. - Stephen R. L. Clark

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Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.

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About Stephen R. L. Clark

Stephen Richard Lyster Clark (born October 30, 1945) is a British philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at the . He specialises in the and animal rights.

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Alternative Names: S. R. L. Clark Stephen Richard Lyster Clark
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It is plain that the present system of intensive farming cannot be defended. … Let us then be vegetarians, at least. For those who have recognized flesh-eating for what it is, the merest addiction, and one, as Shelley saw, to ‘kindle all putrid humours in (our) frame’ … for such moralists the step is easy. It is not necessary, rather it is incompetent, to kill and torture animals to eat.

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