Affluent Nations Quotes by Peter Singer

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• Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of…
• I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather…
• If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the…
• People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable…
• There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by…
• It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used…
• Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It…
• Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that,…

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