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Richard Dawkins stated about vegetarianism/veganism:
Richard Dawkins stated about vegetarianism/veganism:
{{Cquote|[It] leaves me in a very difficult moral position… I think you have a very strong point when you say that anybody who eats meat has a very strong obligation to think seriously about it and I don’t find any good defense. I find myself in exactly the same position as you or I would have been, well probably you wouldn’t have been but I might have been, two hundred years ago […] talking about slavery… I think what I’d really like to see is people like you having a far greater effect on, I would call it, consciousness raising and trying to swing it around so it becomes the societal norm not to eat meat.<ref name="salonvegan"/>}}
{{Cquote|[It] leaves me in a very difficult moral position… I think you have a very strong point when you say that anybody who eats meat has a very strong obligation to think seriously about it and I don’t find any good defense. I find myself in exactly the same position as you or I would have been, well probably you wouldn’t have been but I might have been, two hundred years ago […] talking about slavery… I think what I’d really like to see is people like you having a far greater effect on, I would call it, consciousness raising and trying to swing it around so it becomes the societal norm not to eat meat.<ref name="salonvegan"/>}}
Richard Dawkins is a meat eater.<ref>[http://veganstrategist.org/2014/02/09/on-meat-eating-and-rationality-richard-dawkins-and-sam-harris/ On meat eating and rationality: Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris], ''The Vegan Stategist''</ref>
Steven Stankevicus, the author of the aforementioned ''Salon'' article ''New atheists must become new vegans: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and the extra burden on moral leaders'', wrote in response: "'People like you'? How about people like Richard Dawkins?".<ref name="salonvegan"/>
Steven Stankevicus, the author of the aforementioned ''Salon'' article ''New atheists must become new vegans: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and the extra burden on moral leaders'', wrote in response: "'People like you'? How about people like Richard Dawkins?".<ref name="salonvegan"/>