title: Meat Logic: Why Do We Eat Animals?
author:  Charles Horn 
description: Charles Horn is an award-winning and Emmy-nominated writer. He has written for the wildly popular Robot Chicken and Robot Chicken: Star Wars as well as the hit animated sitcom Fugget About It. He also has a Ph.D. from Princeton University and holds five degrees in engineering and mathematics.
zlib_text: Plutarch on why eating animals is repulsive - tr. Baxter v. 09.13, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 25 December 2017 
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  Plutarch on why 
  eating animals is repulsive 
  
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  WHY EATING ANIMALS IS REPULSIVE? 
  Plutarch on why eating animals is repulsive - tr. Baxter v. 09.13, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 25 December 2017 
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  Train of thoughts 
   The very idea of eating the carcasses of slain animals is repulsive. 
   Who could have begun the practice, but from the direst necessity? 
   Men must have been driven to the deed of slaying animals for food, because the 
  supply of food from the vegetable world had utterly failed. 
   We have no such necessity. 
   Man is not by nature a carnivorous animal. 
   Our conduct in slaying animals and then preparing them for food is wholly against 
  nature. 
   Animal food is injurious: it clogs and confuses the mind and renders it stupid. 
   It operates unfavourably on character. 
   If we must eat flesh, let it 