If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order t…

Peter Singer
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If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end. ✨ Peter Singer (1975). Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals
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