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From Quotes by Peter Singer
- Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to…
- People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as…
- There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by commercial firms that…
- It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products like…
- Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them…
- It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up on storybooks that…
- We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral concern;…
- By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate…
- Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others,…
- As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a…
- My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that it is better…
- The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.
- All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or…
- When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining…
- Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles,…
- It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves…
- Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
- We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries…
- Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us.…
- If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do…
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