Author of Animals & Why They Matter             NEWCASTLE ON TYNE,  United Kingdom––“The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral,”  wrote Mary Midgely on page 27 of her 1983 opus Animals & Why They Matter. “To himself,”  Midgely observed,  “the meat-eater seems to be eating life.  To the vegetarian,  he seems to be eating death.  There […]