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. β¨ Peter Singer (1975). Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals
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- Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.
- I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when nonvegetarians say that human problems come first β¦ βΆ
- 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 it. β¨ Peter Singer (2015). Famine, Affluen β¦ βΆ
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