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Peter Singer

What Peter Singer thinks about animal welfare

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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

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7 dated positions, c. 1975, in their own words. Our reading of what Peter Singer has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingNo moral justification can refuse to take a being's suffering into account

    Their wordsIf a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration.

    ↗Animal Liberation (A New York Review Book, 1975)archive.org All 8 from this book

  3. Our readingHuman treatment of nonhuman animals is a tyranny

    Their wordsThis book is about the tyranny of human over nonhuman animals.

    ↗Animal Liberation (A New York Review Book, 1975)archive.org All 8 from this book

  5. Our readingVegetarianism is a form of boycott

    Their wordsVegetarianism is a form of boycott.

    ↗Animal Liberation (A New York Review Book, 1975)archive.org All 8 from this book

  7. Our readingSpeciesism is a prejudice in favour of one's own species over others

    Their wordsSpeciesism—the word is not an attractive one, but I can think of no better term—is a prejudice or attitude of bias toward the interests of members of one’s own species and against those of members of other species

    ↗Animal Liberation (A New York Review Book, 1975)archive.org All 8 from this book

  9. Our readingWe should not wear furs

    Their wordsWe should not wear furs.

    ↗Animal Liberation (A New York Review Book, 1975)archive.org All 8 from this book

  11. Our readingOnly selfish privilege stops us extending equal consideration to other species

    Their wordsI argue that there can be no reason—except the selfish desire to preserve the privileges of the exploiting group—for refusing to extend the basic principle of equality of consideration to members of other species.

    ↗Animal Liberation (A New York Review Book, 1975)archive.org All 8 from this book

  13. Our readingMost human beings are speciesists

    Their wordsMost human beings are speciesists.

    ↗Animal Liberation (A New York Review Book, 1975)archive.org All 8 from this book