Peter Singer: "The Ethics of What We Eat"

Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, Peter Singer takes a hard look at the food we eat, where it comes from, and how it is produced.

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[smokeybiut]

This man is incredibly brilliant. There just may be hope after all. Animals will be liberated from the hell on earth they experience due to mankind.

[rishijoshi3]

singer has one of the most considered ethical positions. following it to its logical end.

[deanmullen10]

11th Century: Unjustifiable class system within a single race (Medieval Europe Slavery)

18th Century: Unjustifiable class system within a single species (Slave Trade of Africans)

21st Century: Unjustifiable class system within a single world (Animal slaughter)

Until class systems no longer exist the world will not be a right place but once technology continues to advance, so will society hence surly animals will attain rights in the coming 1 or 2 centuries.

[logfio]

I love this. Singer knows there is no reason to be overly provocative or to use propaganda to make his point. He just logically flows from point to point, citing evidence along the way to support his position.

[ExSaint1379]

The most dangerous man in the world! A soft spoken professor who just says people should consider the feelings of all thinking beings. He's destroying morality by claiming we should help the poor and not torture animals to death.

[TheTvrulesthenation]

Silly Singer he forgot the question mark at the end of his ''vegetarian'' point :P

[simplic1000]

@Fortozero

Good on you! Note that if you're having trouble committing, the choice doesn't IMMEDIATELY have to be binary: Meat or No Meat. Start with "meat only on weekends" or something and you'll find it a much simpler transition than if you tried to "go cold turkey" (pun intended).

[Fortozero]

Eye-opening stuff. For the first time I'm seriously considering giving up eating animal products, particularly beef.

[eljagg01]

@Beeffyviolin The Atkins diet is a weight-loss fad. It has nothing to do with health,

and you won't find ANY credible doctors calling it anything other than extremely unhealthy.

[GodTheHypothesis]

@Beeffyviolin

It's clearly not "necessary", as can be seen by the fact that vegetarians don't die younger than meat eaters.

[Beeffyviolin]

Also... He makes the assumption that there are other options for meat through legumes and plants. But he nor I nor you(probably) are diet/health experts. But I know, and he should also, that there are DOCTORS and health experts that disagree. There is no consensus on the benefits of a meat diet. (for example the Atkins diet suggests large quantities of meat are healthy). If meat turns out to be necessary then his whole thesis is wrong.

[candilouwho]

i think over time this elegant, top-down philosophy will gain more and more respect in the philosophical community. he does need a PR person, though.  look into that, peter. ;)