Plutarch on Eating Flesh

Plutarch's brilliant discourses on eating meat. Perhaps the most interesting part is the discussion of the blinding power of convention on the human mind. 

There is also discussion of the Pythagorean theory of the migration of souls. One wonders if such a belief is necessary as a sort of precursor worldview, on top of which and from which later generations can extract and retain the element of compassion while questioning the metaphysical basis.