More Equal Than Others | Julian Baggini | Times Literary Supplement | 20th July 2016

On eating meat, and the moral obligations of humans towards animals. “The idea that morality of some form exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom is not so bizarre once you fully embrace the truth that human beings and all their capacities evolved, and that therefore we should not be too surprised to find human practices, or at least their precursors, in other species … If we are looking for beastly morality we should not assume it will be a simple variant of our own”