EXCERPT I’m making a pie. I take pies very seriously, and so should you. A good pie is a work of art. Of course, pastry is a tricky thing to get right, but filling is where the real difficulties lie. Here we confront all sorts of problems to do with taste and texture, and, if some are to be believed, an ethical problem to boot. I’m making a steak and kidney pie (it’s very English), and, being frank, that means at least one animal had to live in captivity, only to be killed so I can cook it. How can I be justified in sacrificing a living thing for a humble pie? Humble pie is precisely what those who think consuming meat is unethical expect us to eat. They think that, when it comes to deciding what we can and can’t do to living creatures, meat eaters make an illegitimate distinction between humans and other animals. As far as they’re concerned, we can’t think it’s wrong to eat each other and think it’s okay to eat animals.…