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"Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists."
Stephen R. L. ClarkStephen R. L. Clark
Stephen R. L. Clark
Stephen R. L. Clark
author1990–2001
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Stephen Richard Lyster Clark is an English philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Liverpool. An "anarcho-conservative", Clark specialises in the philosophy of religion and animal rights, writing from a philosophical position that might broadly be described as Christian Platonist. He is the author of twenty books, including The Moral Status of Animals (1977), The Natu
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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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