But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. I… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Lay off with the 'You reason, so you don't feel' stuff, please. I feel, but I also think about what I feel.… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Charitable giving is a huge sector in the United States. It amounts to $350 billion a year. And yet, I can't help… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We certainly would resolve the problems of the charities that are working in areas where they can do the most good. So… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If you have the abilities to earn a lot of money and if you have the character to persist in giving that… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Take for example providing a guide dog for a blind person. That's a good thing to do, right? All right. It is… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I don't see how anyone could really think that if you have a choice between saving the life of one person and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I'd much rather be part of a society which greatly honors and respects people who are altruists and who are effective in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Suppose I grant that pigs and dogs are self-aware to some degree, and do have thoughts about things in the future. That… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it really matter… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“The unchallenged assumption is that humans may use animals for their own purposes, and they may raise and kill them to satisfy their preference… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Population growth is not a reason against giving aid but a reason for reconsidering the kind of aid to give.” — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Dairy farmers routinely remove calves from their mothers at an early age so that the milk will be available for humans; anyone who has… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“A consequence of this alienation of humans from their own nature is that they are also alienated from each other. Productive activity becomes ‘activity… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
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