Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been ta…

Peter Singer
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Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable experiments go on in laboratories, cling to a vague belief that conditions cannot be too bad, or else the government or the animal welfare societies would have done something about it. ✨ Peter Singer (1975). Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals
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