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Peter Singer
50 Years of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation
Archive on 4In 2026 the philosopher Peter Singer turns 80. He’s a most unusual contemporary philosopher: his ideas reach far beyond the academy, sparking widespread public debate and changing minds. His book Animal Liberation (1975) became the best-selling philosophy book of the 20th century, and is considered the founding text of the animal liberation movement.
Singer argued that the moral status of animals depends on their capacity for suffering, rather than any abstract considerations about whether they have ‘rights’. He coined the phrase ‘speciesism’, to highlight humans’ prejudice that their suffering matters more than the suffering of other species. He argued that if anything humans do to an animal causes it to suffer, it’s morally wrong.
Singer’s views have remained remarkably consistent since the mid 1970s. But a look into the archive suggests the world of animal rights activism has gone through several changes. In 1979 File On Four reported on the rise of an anti-vivisectionist movement named for Singer’s book: the Animal liberation Front. Their main concern back then was to raise awareness of scientific experimentation on animals. By 1983, the World At One was reporting on concerns that the Front was using increasingly violent tactics, but Delia Smith was also exposing viewers to the novelty of vegetarian food. Today the importance of animal suffering is recognised in law, and vegan options appear on many menus.
Throughout this change in the animal liberation movement, Peter Singer has been on the front line of the media battle. But he's also provoked controversy, particularly with his views on euthanasia.
Philosopher Jonathan Egid explores the thought, legacy, and extensive media archive of Peter Singer.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
Show less
Available now57 minutes
Last on
Yesterday
20:00
BBC Radio 4Peter Singer
2026-07-11 2000-2100
#50YearsOfPeterSingersAnimalLiberation
#BBC50YearsOfPeterSingersAnimalLiberation
#BBCArchiveOn4 #BBCRadio4
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Peter Singer
50 Years of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation
Archive on 4In 2026 the philosopher Peter Singer turns 80. He’s a most unusual contemporary philosopher: his ideas reach far beyond the academy, sparking widespread public debate and changing minds. His book Animal Liberation (1975) became the best-selling philosophy book of the 20th century, and is considered the founding text of the animal liberation movement.
Singer argued that the moral status of animals depends on their capacity for suffering, rather than any abstract considerations about whether they have ‘rights’. He coined the phrase ‘speciesism’, to highlight humans’ prejudice that their suffering matters more than the suffering of other species. He argued that if anything humans do to an animal causes it to suffer, it’s morally wrong.
Singer’s views have remained remarkably consistent since the mid 1970s. But a look into the archive suggests the world of animal rights activism has gone through several changes. In 1979 File On Four reported on the rise of an anti-vivisectionist movement named for Singer’s book: the Animal liberation Front. Their main concern back then was to raise awareness of scientific experimentation on animals. By 1983, the World At One was reporting on concerns that the Front was using increasingly violent tactics, but Delia Smith was also exposing viewers to the novelty of vegetarian food. Today the importance of animal suffering is recognised in law, and vegan options appear on many menus.
Throughout this change in the animal liberation movement, Peter Singer has been on the front line of the media battle. But he's also provoked controversy, particularly with his views on euthanasia.
Philosopher Jonathan Egid explores the thought, legacy, and extensive media archive of Peter Singer.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
Show less
Available now57 minutes
Last on
Yesterday
20:00
BBC Radio 4Peter Singer
2026-07-11 2000-2100
#50YearsOfPeterSingersAnimalLiberation
#BBC50YearsOfPeterSingersAnimalLiberation
#BBCArchiveOn4 #BBCRadio4
#PeterSinger -
Peter Singer
50 Years of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation
Archive on 4In 2026 the philosopher Peter Singer turns 80. He’s a most unusual contemporary philosopher: his ideas reach far beyond the academy, sparking widespread public debate and changing minds. His book Animal Liberation (1975) became the best-selling philosophy book of the 20th century, and is considered the founding text of the animal liberation movement.
Singer argued that the moral status of animals depends on their capacity for suffering, rather than any abstract considerations about whether they have ‘rights’. He coined the phrase ‘speciesism’, to highlight humans’ prejudice that their suffering matters more than the suffering of other species. He argued that if anything humans do to an animal causes it to suffer, it’s morally wrong.
Singer’s views have remained remarkably consistent since the mid 1970s. But a look into the archive suggests the world of animal rights activism has gone through several changes. In 1979 File On Four reported on the rise of an anti-vivisectionist movement named for Singer’s book: the Animal liberation Front. Their main concern back then was to raise awareness of scientific experimentation on animals. By 1983, the World At One was reporting on concerns that the Front was using increasingly violent tactics, but Delia Smith was also exposing viewers to the novelty of vegetarian food. Today the importance of animal suffering is recognised in law, and vegan options appear on many menus.
Throughout this change in the animal liberation movement, Peter Singer has been on the front line of the media battle. But he's also provoked controversy, particularly with his views on euthanasia.
Philosopher Jonathan Egid explores the thought, legacy, and extensive media archive of Peter Singer.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
Show less
Available now57 minutes
Last on
Yesterday
20:00
BBC Radio 4Peter Singer
2026-07-11 2000-2100
#50YearsOfPeterSingersAnimalLiberation
#BBC50YearsOfPeterSingersAnimalLiberation
#BBCArchiveOn4 #BBCRadio4
#PeterSinger -
Peter Singer
50 Years of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation
Archive on 4In 2026 the philosopher Peter Singer turns 80. He’s a most unusual contemporary philosopher: his ideas reach far beyond the academy, sparking widespread public debate and changing minds. His book Animal Liberation (1975) became the best-selling philosophy book of the 20th century, and is considered the founding text of the animal liberation movement.
Singer argued that the moral status of animals depends on their capacity for suffering, rather than any abstract considerations about whether they have ‘rights’. He coined the phrase ‘speciesism’, to highlight humans’ prejudice that their suffering matters more than the suffering of other species. He argued that if anything humans do to an animal causes it to suffer, it’s morally wrong.
Singer’s views have remained remarkably consistent since the mid 1970s. But a look into the archive suggests the world of animal rights activism has gone through several changes. In 1979 File On Four reported on the rise of an anti-vivisectionist movement named for Singer’s book: the Animal liberation Front. Their main concern back then was to raise awareness of scientific experimentation on animals. By 1983, the World At One was reporting on concerns that the Front was using increasingly violent tactics, but Delia Smith was also exposing viewers to the novelty of vegetarian food. Today the importance of animal suffering is recognised in law, and vegan options appear on many menus.
Throughout this change in the animal liberation movement, Peter Singer has been on the front line of the media battle. But he's also provoked controversy, particularly with his views on euthanasia.
Philosopher Jonathan Egid explores the thought, legacy, and extensive media archive of Peter Singer.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
Show less
Available now57 minutes
Last on
Yesterday
20:00
BBC Radio 4Peter Singer
2026-07-11 2000-2100
#50YearsOfPeterSingersAnimalLiberation
#BBC50YearsOfPeterSingersAnimalLiberation
#BBCArchiveOn4 #BBCRadio4
#PeterSinger -
Peter Singer
50 Years of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation
Archive on 4In 2026 the philosopher Peter Singer turns 80. He’s a most unusual contemporary philosopher: his ideas reach far beyond the academy, sparking widespread public debate and changing minds. His book Animal Liberation (1975) became the best-selling philosophy book of the 20th century, and is considered the founding text of the animal liberation movement.
Singer argued that the moral status of animals depends on their capacity for suffering, rather than any abstract considerations about whether they have ‘rights’. He coined the phrase ‘speciesism’, to highlight humans’ prejudice that their suffering matters more than the suffering of other species. He argued that if anything humans do to an animal causes it to suffer, it’s morally wrong.
Singer’s views have remained remarkably consistent since the mid 1970s. But a look into the archive suggests the world of animal rights activism has gone through several changes. In 1979 File On Four reported on the rise of an anti-vivisectionist movement named for Singer’s book: the Animal liberation Front. Their main concern back then was to raise awareness of scientific experimentation on animals. By 1983, the World At One was reporting on concerns that the Front was using increasingly violent tactics, but Delia Smith was also exposing viewers to the novelty of vegetarian food. Today the importance of animal suffering is recognised in law, and vegan options appear on many menus.
Throughout this change in the animal liberation movement, Peter Singer has been on the front line of the media battle. But he's also provoked controversy, particularly with his views on euthanasia.
Philosopher Jonathan Egid explores the thought, legacy, and extensive media archive of Peter Singer.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
Show less
Available now57 minutes
Last on
Yesterday
20:00
BBC Radio 4Peter Singer
2026-07-11 2000-2100
#50YearsOfPeterSingersAnimalLiberation
#BBC50YearsOfPeterSingersAnimalLiberation
#BBCArchiveOn4 #BBCRadio4
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1080006/ Are There Ethical Billionaires? Famed Philosopher Peter Singer Thinks So #Business #CariTuna #Entrepreneurship #ethics #PeterSinger #ProfitForGood #RutgerBregman #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Are There Ethical Billionaires? Famed Philosopher Peter Singer Thinks So
A pile of dollar bills. At 80, Peter Singer is still pressing the wealthy to treat money as…
#NewsBeep #News #Entrepreneurship #Business #CariTuna #ethics #PeterSinger. #Profitforgood #RutgerBregman #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/577657/ Are There Ethical Billionaires? Famed Philosopher Peter Singer Thinks So #Business #CariTuna #Éire #Entrepreneurship #ethics #IE #Ireland #PeterSinger #ProfitForGood #RutgerBregman
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Peter Singer is a Consequentialist Hedonic Utilitarian Ethicist.
It's his professional job to be good at ethics and teach others about ethics.
He thinks the best ethics are judged by the consequences, and that good is the best for the most people.
He has a podcast. It's probably great. He is cool. I only just heard about it.
But this is his website.
The podcast is offered on Spotify and Apple.
It has an AI chat bot that isn't even prompted well to sound like Peter for no reason at all.
It has a embed for a substack.
That embed for a substack is expired because it's run by a thing called Supascribe that is presumably some software as a service scam.
Below that is a cookie permissions banner which is asking for permission to spy on you for advertisers even though there are no actual adverts on the site.
There are links at the top and bottom to Facebook and Instagram.
There is no RSS feed embedded in the page.
I repeat: Peter Singer is actually pretty cool, and he thinks about ethics sanely.
This is the web we have built. Where a professional Consequentialist Hedonic Utilitarian Ethicist does all this.
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Peter Singer is a Consequentialist Hedonic Utilitarian Ethicist.
It's his professional job to be good at ethics and teach others about ethics.
He thinks the best ethics are judged by the consequences, and that good is the best for the most people.
He has a podcast. It's probably great. He is cool. I only just heard about it.
But this is his website.
The podcast is offered on Spotify and Apple.
It has an AI chat bot that isn't even prompted well to sound like Peter for no reason at all.
It has a embed for a substack.
That embed for a substack is expired because it's run by a thing called Supascribe that is presumably some software as a service scam.
Below that is a cookie permissions banner which is asking for permission to spy on you for advertisers even though there are no actual adverts on the site.
There are links at the top and bottom to Facebook and Instagram.
There is no RSS feed embedded in the page.
I repeat: Peter Singer is actually pretty cool, and he thinks about ethics sanely.
This is the web we have built. Where a professional Consequentialist Hedonic Utilitarian Ethicist does all this.
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Peter Singer is a Consequentialist Hedonic Utilitarian Ethicist.
It's his professional job to be good at ethics and teach others about ethics.
He thinks the best ethics are judged by the consequences, and that good is the best for the most people.
He has a podcast. It's probably great. He is cool. I only just heard about it.
But this is his website.
The podcast is offered on Spotify and Apple.
It has an AI chat bot that isn't even prompted well to sound like Peter for no reason at all.
It has a embed for a substack.
That embed for a substack is expired because it's run by a thing called Supascribe that is presumably some software as a service scam.
Below that is a cookie permissions banner which is asking for permission to spy on you for advertisers even though there are no actual adverts on the site.
There are links at the top and bottom to Facebook and Instagram.
There is no RSS feed embedded in the page.
I repeat: Peter Singer is actually pretty cool, and he thinks about ethics sanely.
This is the web we have built. Where a professional Consequentialist Hedonic Utilitarian Ethicist does all this.
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Peter Singer is a Consequentialist Hedonic Utilitarian Ethicist.
It's his professional job to be good at ethics and teach others about ethics.
He thinks the best ethics are judged by the consequences, and that good is the best for the most people.
He has a podcast. It's probably great. He is cool. I only just heard about it.
But this is his website.
The podcast is offered on Spotify and Apple.
It has an AI chat bot that isn't even prompted well to sound like Peter for no reason at all.
It has a embed for a substack.
That embed for a substack is expired because it's run by a thing called Supascribe that is presumably some software as a service scam.
Below that is a cookie permissions banner which is asking for permission to spy on you for advertisers even though there are no actual adverts on the site.
There are links at the top and bottom to Facebook and Instagram.
There is no RSS feed embedded in the page.
I repeat: Peter Singer is actually pretty cool, and he thinks about ethics sanely.
This is the web we have built. Where a professional Consequentialist Hedonic Utilitarian Ethicist does all this.
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Peter Singer is a Consequentialist Hedonic Utilitarian Ethicist.
It's his professional job to be good at ethics and teach others about ethics.
He thinks the best ethics are judged by the consequences, and that good is the best for the most people.
He has a podcast. It's probably great. He is cool. I only just heard about it.
But this is his website.
The podcast is offered on Spotify and Apple.
It has an AI chat bot that isn't even prompted well to sound like Peter for no reason at all.
It has a embed for a substack.
That embed for a substack is expired because it's run by a thing called Supascribe that is presumably some software as a service scam.
Below that is a cookie permissions banner which is asking for permission to spy on you for advertisers even though there are no actual adverts on the site.
There are links at the top and bottom to Facebook and Instagram.
There is no RSS feed embedded in the page.
I repeat: Peter Singer is actually pretty cool, and he thinks about ethics sanely.
This is the web we have built. Where a professional Consequentialist Hedonic Utilitarian Ethicist does all this.
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𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑶𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒔: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒗𝒔. 𝑴𝒂𝒏
And when the child cannot speak for itself?
Humanity's first global lawsuit! In this 10th-century Islamic fable, animals put mankind on trial for the crimes of the extraction economy.
https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/original-omelas-case-animals-versus-man/
#podcast #literature #arabicliterature #medievalliterature #petersinger #ursulakleguin #donnaharaway #aristotle #francisbacon #jacquesderrida #speciesism
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𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑶𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒔: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒗𝒔. 𝑴𝒂𝒏
And when the child cannot speak for itself?
Humanity's first global lawsuit! In this 10th-century Islamic fable, animals put mankind on trial for the crimes of the extraction economy.
https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/original-omelas-case-animals-versus-man/
#podcast #literature #arabicliterature #medievalliterature #petersinger #ursulakleguin #donnaharaway #aristotle #francisbacon #jacquesderrida #speciesism
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𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑶𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒔: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒗𝒔. 𝑴𝒂𝒏
And when the child cannot speak for itself?
Humanity's first global lawsuit! In this 10th-century Islamic fable, animals put mankind on trial for the crimes of the extraction economy.
https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/original-omelas-case-animals-versus-man/
#podcast #literature #arabicliterature #medievalliterature #petersinger #ursulakleguin #donnaharaway #aristotle #francisbacon #jacquesderrida #speciesism
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𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑶𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒔: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒗𝒔. 𝑴𝒂𝒏
And when the child cannot speak for itself?
Humanity's first global lawsuit! In this 10th-century Islamic fable, animals put mankind on trial for the crimes of the extraction economy.
https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/original-omelas-case-animals-versus-man/
#podcast #literature #arabicliterature #medievalliterature #petersinger #ursulakleguin #donnaharaway #aristotle #francisbacon #jacquesderrida #speciesism
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𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑶𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒔: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒗𝒔. 𝑴𝒂𝒏
And when the child cannot speak for itself?
Humanity's first global lawsuit! In this 10th-century Islamic fable, animals put mankind on trial for the crimes of the extraction economy.
https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/original-omelas-case-animals-versus-man/
#podcast #literature #arabicliterature #medievalliterature #petersinger #ursulakleguin #donnaharaway #aristotle #francisbacon #jacquesderrida #speciesism
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@max_muehsal #PeterSinger
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer?wprov=sfti1 … für die, die ihn nicht kennen sollten. -
@max_muehsal #PeterSinger
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer?wprov=sfti1 … für die, die ihn nicht kennen sollten. -
@max_muehsal #PeterSinger
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer?wprov=sfti1 … für die, die ihn nicht kennen sollten. -
@max_muehsal #PeterSinger
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer?wprov=sfti1 … für die, die ihn nicht kennen sollten. -
Obgleich und weil ich mich sehr für die Bewahrung der Mitwelt engagiere, betone ich die Bedeutung der Menschenwürde.
Diese wird nach meiner Auffassung durch die ethische Gleichsetzung von Menschen mit Tieren, wie sie auch Peter Singer vertritt, leider relativiert.
Und, nein, da gehe ich nicht mit.
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Obgleich und weil ich mich sehr für die Bewahrung der Mitwelt engagiere, betone ich die Bedeutung der Menschenwürde.
Diese wird nach meiner Auffassung durch die ethische Gleichsetzung von Menschen mit Tieren, wie sie auch Peter Singer vertritt, leider relativiert.
Und, nein, da gehe ich nicht mit.
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Obgleich und weil ich mich sehr für die Bewahrung der Mitwelt engagiere, betone ich die Bedeutung der Menschenwürde.
Diese wird nach meiner Auffassung durch die ethische Gleichsetzung von Menschen mit Tieren, wie sie auch Peter Singer vertritt, leider relativiert.
Und, nein, da gehe ich nicht mit.
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Obgleich und weil ich mich sehr für die Bewahrung der Mitwelt engagiere, betone ich die Bedeutung der Menschenwürde.
Diese wird nach meiner Auffassung durch die ethische Gleichsetzung von Menschen mit Tieren, wie sie auch Peter Singer vertritt, leider relativiert.
Und, nein, da gehe ich nicht mit.
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Obgleich und weil ich mich sehr für die Bewahrung der Mitwelt engagiere, betone ich die Bedeutung der Menschenwürde.
Diese wird nach meiner Auffassung durch die ethische Gleichsetzung von Menschen mit Tieren, wie sie auch Peter Singer vertritt, leider relativiert.
Und, nein, da gehe ich nicht mit.
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Peter Singer the Baby Killer.
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Peter Singer the Baby Killer.
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Peter Singer the Baby Killer.
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Peter Singer the Baby Killer.
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Peter Singer the Baby Killer.
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Ah, the #NYRB, where every topic imaginable gets the same amount of intellectual hot air. 🎈 Peter Singer must be thrilled to be sandwiched between climate change and literary gifts. 📚🌍 But hey, at least there's a shop! 💸
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/circling-the-good-thomas-nagel/ #IntellectualDiscussion #PeterSinger #ClimateChange #LiteraryGifts #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the #NYRB, where every topic imaginable gets the same amount of intellectual hot air. 🎈 Peter Singer must be thrilled to be sandwiched between climate change and literary gifts. 📚🌍 But hey, at least there's a shop! 💸
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/circling-the-good-thomas-nagel/ #IntellectualDiscussion #PeterSinger #ClimateChange #LiteraryGifts #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the #NYRB, where every topic imaginable gets the same amount of intellectual hot air. 🎈 Peter Singer must be thrilled to be sandwiched between climate change and literary gifts. 📚🌍 But hey, at least there's a shop! 💸
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/circling-the-good-thomas-nagel/ #IntellectualDiscussion #PeterSinger #ClimateChange #LiteraryGifts #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the #NYRB, where every topic imaginable gets the same amount of intellectual hot air. 🎈 Peter Singer must be thrilled to be sandwiched between climate change and literary gifts. 📚🌍 But hey, at least there's a shop! 💸
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/circling-the-good-thomas-nagel/ #IntellectualDiscussion #PeterSinger #ClimateChange #LiteraryGifts #HackerNews #ngated -
#petersinger asked "Would you save a drowning child at the small cost of getting your shirt wet?"
If your answer is yes, you should sacrifice small luxuries like eating out and redirect the savings to #charity .
A tough pill to swallow. But if true, a society that views donation to non-profits as just optional and praiseworthy is evil. It led to #wealthgap , #climatechange , #enshittification and #latestagecapitalism .
Do you agree?
#philosophy #humanitarianaid #ethics #overconsumption -
#petersinger asked "Would you save a drowning child at the small cost of getting your shirt wet?"
If your answer is yes, you should sacrifice small luxuries like eating out and redirect the savings to #charity .
A tough pill to swallow. But if true, a society that views donation to non-profits as just optional and praiseworthy is evil. It led to #wealthgap , #climatechange , #enshittification and #latestagecapitalism .
Do you agree?
#philosophy #humanitarianaid #ethics #overconsumption -
#petersinger asked "Would you save a drowning child at the small cost of getting your shirt wet?"
If your answer is yes, you should sacrifice small luxuries like eating out and redirect the savings to #charity .
A tough pill to swallow. But if true, a society that views donation to non-profits as just optional and praiseworthy is evil. It led to #wealthgap , #climatechange , #enshittification and #latestagecapitalism .
Do you agree?
#philosophy #humanitarianaid #ethics #overconsumption -
#petersinger asked "Would you save a drowning child at the small cost of getting your shirt wet?"
If your answer is yes, you should sacrifice small luxuries like eating out and redirect the savings to #charity .
A tough pill to swallow. But if true, a society that views donation to non-profits as just optional and praiseworthy is evil. It led to #wealthgap , #climatechange , #enshittification and #latestagecapitalism .
Do you agree?
#philosophy #humanitarianaid #ethics #overconsumption -
Consider The #Turkey: philosopher’s new book might put you off your festive bird – and that’s exactly what he would want - Australian #philosopher #PeterSinger has been a champion of animal rights for more than 50 years. His basic philosophical position has remained the same: the suffering of animals is just as important as the suffering of human beings. https://theconversation.com/consider-the-turkey-philosophers-new-book-might-put-you-off-your-festive-bird-and-thats-exactly-what-he-would-want-245500 #sentient #vegetarian #animalwelfare #animalrights #ethics
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Consider The #Turkey: philosopher’s new book might put you off your festive bird – and that’s exactly what he would want - Australian #philosopher #PeterSinger has been a champion of animal rights for more than 50 years. His basic philosophical position has remained the same: the suffering of animals is just as important as the suffering of human beings. https://theconversation.com/consider-the-turkey-philosophers-new-book-might-put-you-off-your-festive-bird-and-thats-exactly-what-he-would-want-245500 #sentient #vegetarian #animalwelfare #animalrights #ethics
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Consider The #Turkey: philosopher’s new book might put you off your festive bird – and that’s exactly what he would want - Australian #philosopher #PeterSinger has been a champion of animal rights for more than 50 years. His basic philosophical position has remained the same: the suffering of animals is just as important as the suffering of human beings. https://theconversation.com/consider-the-turkey-philosophers-new-book-might-put-you-off-your-festive-bird-and-thats-exactly-what-he-would-want-245500 #sentient #vegetarian #animalwelfare #animalrights #ethics
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Consider The #Turkey: philosopher’s new book might put you off your festive bird – and that’s exactly what he would want - Australian #philosopher #PeterSinger has been a champion of animal rights for more than 50 years. His basic philosophical position has remained the same: the suffering of animals is just as important as the suffering of human beings. https://theconversation.com/consider-the-turkey-philosophers-new-book-might-put-you-off-your-festive-bird-and-thats-exactly-what-he-would-want-245500 #sentient #vegetarian #animalwelfare #animalrights #ethics
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Consider The #Turkey: philosopher’s new book might put you off your festive bird – and that’s exactly what he would want - Australian #philosopher #PeterSinger has been a champion of animal rights for more than 50 years. His basic philosophical position has remained the same: the suffering of animals is just as important as the suffering of human beings. https://theconversation.com/consider-the-turkey-philosophers-new-book-might-put-you-off-your-festive-bird-and-thats-exactly-what-he-would-want-245500 #sentient #vegetarian #animalwelfare #animalrights #ethics
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Why #Religion Does more #Harm than #Good in the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp3pW_2E2BM
This video consists of #critical #arguments against #religious #doctrines and #ideologies, presented by #ChistopherHitchens, #DanielDennett, #LawrenceKrauss, #PeterSinger, #RichardDawkins & #RickyGervais.
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Why #Religion Does more #Harm than #Good in the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp3pW_2E2BM
This video consists of #critical #arguments against #religious #doctrines and #ideologies, presented by #ChistopherHitchens, #DanielDennett, #LawrenceKrauss, #PeterSinger, #RichardDawkins & #RickyGervais.
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Why #Religion Does more #Harm than #Good in the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp3pW_2E2BM
This video consists of #critical #arguments against #religious #doctrines and #ideologies, presented by #ChistopherHitchens, #DanielDennett, #LawrenceKrauss, #PeterSinger, #RichardDawkins & #RickyGervais.
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Why #Religion Does more #Harm than #Good in the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp3pW_2E2BM
This video consists of #critical #arguments against #religious #doctrines and #ideologies, presented by #ChistopherHitchens, #DanielDennett, #LawrenceKrauss, #PeterSinger, #RichardDawkins & #RickyGervais.
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Why #Religion Does more #Harm than #Good in the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp3pW_2E2BM
This video consists of #critical #arguments against #religious #doctrines and #ideologies, presented by #ChistopherHitchens, #DanielDennett, #LawrenceKrauss, #PeterSinger, #RichardDawkins & #RickyGervais.
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#PeterSinger
"climate protesters blocking 1000's of people fr driving their kids to school or going to work is more ethically worrisome than disrupting e routine of those w power to reduce #greenhousegas emissions.. #politicians & #bureaucrats in their official capacity .. #Unethical #activism, even when nonviolent, can easily spur counter-protests tt spiral to violence. The principle of #proportionality can serve as a useful guide to factors tt protesters shld consider"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2859761/protesting-ethically-for-the-planet -
#PeterSinger
"climate protesters blocking 1000's of people fr driving their kids to school or going to work is more ethically worrisome than disrupting e routine of those w power to reduce #greenhousegas emissions.. #politicians & #bureaucrats in their official capacity .. #Unethical #activism, even when nonviolent, can easily spur counter-protests tt spiral to violence. The principle of #proportionality can serve as a useful guide to factors tt protesters shld consider"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2859761/protesting-ethically-for-the-planet -
#PeterSinger
"climate protesters blocking 1000's of people fr driving their kids to school or going to work is more ethically worrisome than disrupting e routine of those w power to reduce #greenhousegas emissions.. #politicians & #bureaucrats in their official capacity .. #Unethical #activism, even when nonviolent, can easily spur counter-protests tt spiral to violence. The principle of #proportionality can serve as a useful guide to factors tt protesters shld consider"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2859761/protesting-ethically-for-the-planet -
9 months after SBF conviction, Peter Singer defends effective altruism in debate - According to the prominent voice for effective altruism, Sam Bankman-Fri... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/sbf-conviction-peter-singer-effective-altruism #effectivealtruism #sambankman-fried #petersinger #alicecrary #ftx
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9 months after SBF conviction, Peter Singer defends effective altruism in debate - According to the prominent voice for effective altruism, Sam Bankman-Fri... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/sbf-conviction-peter-singer-effective-altruism #effectivealtruism #sambankman-fried #petersinger #alicecrary #ftx
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9 months after SBF conviction, Peter Singer defends effective altruism in debate - According to the prominent voice for effective altruism, Sam Bankman-Fri... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/sbf-conviction-peter-singer-effective-altruism #effectivealtruism #sambankman-fried #petersinger #alicecrary #ftx
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9 months after SBF conviction, Peter Singer defends effective altruism in debate - According to the prominent voice for effective altruism, Sam Bankman-Fri... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/sbf-conviction-peter-singer-effective-altruism #effectivealtruism #sambankman-fried #petersinger #alicecrary #ftx
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Stop Gambling Our Future for Meat Deforestation
Renowned animal rights ethicist philosopher Peter Singer asserts that our dietary choices, particularly our consumption of meat and dairy, are jeopardising the Earth’s future. These industries contribute significantly to environmental degradation, deforestation, and greenhouse gas emissions, intensifying the impacts of climate change. By indulging in hamburgers and other meat-based products, we are not only compromising our health but also the wellbeing of our planet. For a more sustainable and compassionate future, consider boycotting meat and dairy. Choose to be vegan for the animals and to save our planet #Boycottmeat be #vegan #Boycott4Wildlife
Originally published by The Conversation June 15, 2023 and republished here under the Creative Commons Licence, read original.
Peter Singer, Princeton University
I wasn’t aware of climate change until the 1980s — hardly anyone was — and even when we recognised the dire threat that burning fossil fuels posed, it took time for the role of animal production in warming the planet to be understood.
Today, though, the fact that eating plants will reduce your greenhouse gas emissions is one of the most important and influential reasons for cutting down on animal products and, for those willing to go all the way, becoming vegan.
A few years ago, eating locally — eating only food produced within a defined radius of your home — became the thing for environmentally conscious people to do, to such an extent that “locavore” became the Oxford English Dictionary’s “word of the year” for 2007.
If you enjoy getting to know and support your local farmers, of course, eating locally makes sense. But if your aim is, as many local eaters said, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, you would do much better by thinking about what you are eating, rather than where it comes from. That’s because transport makes up only a tiny share of the greenhouse gas emissions from the production and distribution of food.
With beef, for example, transport is only 0.5% of total emissions. So if you eat local beef you will still be responsible for 99.5% of the greenhouse gas emissions your food would have caused if you had eaten beef transported a long distance. On the other hand, if you choose peas you will be responsible for only about 2% of the greenhouse gas emissions from producing a similar quantity of local beef.
And although beef is the worst food for emitting greenhouse gases, a broader study of the carbon footprints of food across the European Union showed that meat, dairy and eggs accounted for 83% of emissions, and transport for only 6%.
More generally, plant foods typically have far lower greenhouse gas emissions than any animal foods, whether we are comparing equivalent quantities of calories or of protein. Beef, for example, emits 192 times as much carbon dioxide equivalent per gram of protein as nuts, and while these are at the extremes of the protein foods, eggs, the animal food with the lowest emissions per gram of protein, still has, per gram of protein, more than twice the emissions of tofu.
Animal foods do even more poorly when compared with plant foods in terms of calories produced. Beef emits 520 times as much per calorie as nuts, and eggs, again the best-performing animal product, emit five times as much per calorie as potatoes.
Favourable as these figures are to plant foods, they leave out something that tilts the balance even more strongly against animal foods in the effort to avoid catastrophic climate change: the “carbon opportunity cost” of the vast area of land used for grazing animals and the smaller, but still very large, area used to grow crops that are then fed — wastefully, as we have seen — to confined animals.
Because we use this land for animals we eat, it cannot be used to restore native ecosystems, including forests, which would safely remove huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. One study has found that a shift to plant-based eating would free up so much land for this purpose that seizing the opportunity would give us a 66% probability of achieving something that most observers believe we have missed our chance of achieving: limiting warming to 1.5℃.
Another study has suggested that a rapid phaseout of animal agriculture would enable us to stabilise greenhouse gases for the next 30 years and offset more than two-thirds of all carbon dioxide emissions this century. According to the authors of this study:
The magnitude and rapidity of these potential effects should place the reduction or elimination of animal agriculture at the forefront of strategies for averting disastrous climate change.
Climate change is undoubtedly the biggest environmental issue facing us today, but it is not the only one. If we look at environmental issues more broadly, we find further reasons for preferring a plant-based diet.
Fires in the Amazon and linked to cattle ranching. Andre Penner/AP PhotoThe clearing and burning of the Amazon rainforest means not only the release of carbon from the trees and other vegetation into the atmosphere, but also the likely extinction of many plant and animal species that are still unrecorded.
This destruction is driven largely by the prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat, which makes it more profitable to clear the forest than to preserve it for the indigenous people living there, establish an ecotourism industry, protect the area’s biodiversity, or keep the carbon locked up in the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet for the sake of hamburgers.
Joseph Poore, of the University of Oxford, led a study that consolidated a huge amount of environmental data on 38,700 farms and 1,600 food processors in 119 countries and covered 40 different food products. Poore summarised the upshot of all this research thus:
A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use. It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car, as these only cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Poore doesn’t see “sustainable” animal agriculture as the solution:
Really it is animal products that are responsible for so much of this. Avoiding consumption of animal products delivers far better environmental benefits than trying to purchase sustainable meat and dairy.
Those who claim to care about the wellbeing of human beings and the preservation of our climate and our environment should become vegans for those reasons alone.
Doing so would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution, save water and energy, free vast tracts of land for reforestation, and eliminate the most significant incentive for clearing the Amazon and other forests.
This is an edited extract from Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer (Penguin Random House).
Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics in the Center for Human Values, Princeton University
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Originally published by The Conversation June 15, 2023 and republished here under the Creative Commons Licence, read original.
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Ecuadorean Viscacha Lagidium ahuacaense
High in the remote granite outcrops of Cerro El Ahuaca, #Ecuador the Ecuadorean #Viscacha Lagidium ahuacaense is plump and fluffy #rodent sporting sage-like long whiskers. From their high perch they look down upon…
Climate Change Driving Mass Bird Deaths in the Amazon
A recent #study has revealed that even in the most isolated parts of the #Amazon, bird #populations are collapsing due to #climatechange. Research published in Science Advances found that a 1°C increase in…
Declining primate numbers are threatening Brazil’s Atlantic forest
#Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, is facing severe threats due to deforestation and habitat fragmentation. This has led to a sharp decline in primate species, including…
Blue-streaked Lory Eos reticulata
Brilliantly coloured and full of energy, the Blue-streaked Lory (Eos reticulata) is a striking and unique #parrot living in the forests of the Banda Sea Islands, #Indonesia. Their scarlet plumage is decorated with…
Blonde Capuchin Sapajus flavius
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Stop Gambling Our Future for Meat Deforestation
Renowned animal rights ethicist philosopher Peter Singer asserts that our dietary choices, particularly our consumption of meat and dairy, are jeopardising the Earth’s future. These industries contribute significantly to environmental degradation, deforestation, and greenhouse gas emissions, intensifying the impacts of climate change. By indulging in hamburgers and other meat-based products, we are not only compromising our health but also the wellbeing of our planet. For a more sustainable and compassionate future, consider boycotting meat and dairy. Choose to be vegan for the animals and to save our planet #Boycottmeat be #vegan #Boycott4Wildlife
Originally published by The Conversation June 15, 2023 and republished here under the Creative Commons Licence, read original.
Peter Singer, Princeton University
I wasn’t aware of climate change until the 1980s — hardly anyone was — and even when we recognised the dire threat that burning fossil fuels posed, it took time for the role of animal production in warming the planet to be understood.
Today, though, the fact that eating plants will reduce your greenhouse gas emissions is one of the most important and influential reasons for cutting down on animal products and, for those willing to go all the way, becoming vegan.
A few years ago, eating locally — eating only food produced within a defined radius of your home — became the thing for environmentally conscious people to do, to such an extent that “locavore” became the Oxford English Dictionary’s “word of the year” for 2007.
If you enjoy getting to know and support your local farmers, of course, eating locally makes sense. But if your aim is, as many local eaters said, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, you would do much better by thinking about what you are eating, rather than where it comes from. That’s because transport makes up only a tiny share of the greenhouse gas emissions from the production and distribution of food.
With beef, for example, transport is only 0.5% of total emissions. So if you eat local beef you will still be responsible for 99.5% of the greenhouse gas emissions your food would have caused if you had eaten beef transported a long distance. On the other hand, if you choose peas you will be responsible for only about 2% of the greenhouse gas emissions from producing a similar quantity of local beef.
And although beef is the worst food for emitting greenhouse gases, a broader study of the carbon footprints of food across the European Union showed that meat, dairy and eggs accounted for 83% of emissions, and transport for only 6%.
More generally, plant foods typically have far lower greenhouse gas emissions than any animal foods, whether we are comparing equivalent quantities of calories or of protein. Beef, for example, emits 192 times as much carbon dioxide equivalent per gram of protein as nuts, and while these are at the extremes of the protein foods, eggs, the animal food with the lowest emissions per gram of protein, still has, per gram of protein, more than twice the emissions of tofu.
Animal foods do even more poorly when compared with plant foods in terms of calories produced. Beef emits 520 times as much per calorie as nuts, and eggs, again the best-performing animal product, emit five times as much per calorie as potatoes.
Favourable as these figures are to plant foods, they leave out something that tilts the balance even more strongly against animal foods in the effort to avoid catastrophic climate change: the “carbon opportunity cost” of the vast area of land used for grazing animals and the smaller, but still very large, area used to grow crops that are then fed — wastefully, as we have seen — to confined animals.
Because we use this land for animals we eat, it cannot be used to restore native ecosystems, including forests, which would safely remove huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. One study has found that a shift to plant-based eating would free up so much land for this purpose that seizing the opportunity would give us a 66% probability of achieving something that most observers believe we have missed our chance of achieving: limiting warming to 1.5℃.
Another study has suggested that a rapid phaseout of animal agriculture would enable us to stabilise greenhouse gases for the next 30 years and offset more than two-thirds of all carbon dioxide emissions this century. According to the authors of this study:
The magnitude and rapidity of these potential effects should place the reduction or elimination of animal agriculture at the forefront of strategies for averting disastrous climate change.
Climate change is undoubtedly the biggest environmental issue facing us today, but it is not the only one. If we look at environmental issues more broadly, we find further reasons for preferring a plant-based diet.
Fires in the Amazon and linked to cattle ranching. Andre Penner/AP PhotoThe clearing and burning of the Amazon rainforest means not only the release of carbon from the trees and other vegetation into the atmosphere, but also the likely extinction of many plant and animal species that are still unrecorded.
This destruction is driven largely by the prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat, which makes it more profitable to clear the forest than to preserve it for the indigenous people living there, establish an ecotourism industry, protect the area’s biodiversity, or keep the carbon locked up in the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet for the sake of hamburgers.
Joseph Poore, of the University of Oxford, led a study that consolidated a huge amount of environmental data on 38,700 farms and 1,600 food processors in 119 countries and covered 40 different food products. Poore summarised the upshot of all this research thus:
A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use. It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car, as these only cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Poore doesn’t see “sustainable” animal agriculture as the solution:
Really it is animal products that are responsible for so much of this. Avoiding consumption of animal products delivers far better environmental benefits than trying to purchase sustainable meat and dairy.
Those who claim to care about the wellbeing of human beings and the preservation of our climate and our environment should become vegans for those reasons alone.
Doing so would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution, save water and energy, free vast tracts of land for reforestation, and eliminate the most significant incentive for clearing the Amazon and other forests.
This is an edited extract from Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer (Penguin Random House).
Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics in the Center for Human Values, Princeton University
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Originally published by The Conversation June 15, 2023 and republished here under the Creative Commons Licence, read original.
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Gursky’s Spectral Tarsier Tarsius spectrumgurskyae
Gursky’s spectral tarsiers AKA Wusing of North Sulawesi are vulnerable due to palm oil and timber deforestation. Take action for them and boycott palm oil!
Read moreForest Protection Equals Climate Protection
Forests offer climate protection and safeguard indigenous peoples, endangered animals and rare plants. Deforestation is a major threat. Boycott palm oil!
Read moreBeautiful and Doomed: Saving Bangladesh’s Langurs From Extinction
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Read moreWestern Parotia Parotia sefilata
Western Parotias AKA Arfak Parotias are stunning bird-of-paradise of West Papua known for their mesmerising dances. Palm oil and mining ecocide are threats
Read moreJaguars vs Cows: JBS Fuelling Biodiversity Collapse in Brazil’s Forests
Global Witness report finds JBS, the world’s largest meat company, is directly linked to deforestation in the Amazon and Pantanal putting jaguars at risk
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Stop Gambling Our Future for Meat Deforestation
Renowned animal rights ethicist philosopher Peter Singer asserts that our dietary choices, particularly our consumption of meat and dairy, are jeopardising the Earth’s future. These industries contribute significantly to environmental degradation, deforestation, and greenhouse gas emissions, intensifying the impacts of climate change. By indulging in hamburgers and other meat-based products, we are not only compromising our health but also the wellbeing of our planet. For a more sustainable and compassionate future, consider boycotting meat and dairy. Choose to be vegan for the animals and to save our planet #Boycottmeat be #vegan #Boycott4Wildlife
Originally published by The Conversation June 15, 2023 and republished here under the Creative Commons Licence, read original.
Peter Singer, Princeton University
I wasn’t aware of climate change until the 1980s — hardly anyone was — and even when we recognised the dire threat that burning fossil fuels posed, it took time for the role of animal production in warming the planet to be understood.
Today, though, the fact that eating plants will reduce your greenhouse gas emissions is one of the most important and influential reasons for cutting down on animal products and, for those willing to go all the way, becoming vegan.
A few years ago, eating locally — eating only food produced within a defined radius of your home — became the thing for environmentally conscious people to do, to such an extent that “locavore” became the Oxford English Dictionary’s “word of the year” for 2007.
If you enjoy getting to know and support your local farmers, of course, eating locally makes sense. But if your aim is, as many local eaters said, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, you would do much better by thinking about what you are eating, rather than where it comes from. That’s because transport makes up only a tiny share of the greenhouse gas emissions from the production and distribution of food.
With beef, for example, transport is only 0.5% of total emissions. So if you eat local beef you will still be responsible for 99.5% of the greenhouse gas emissions your food would have caused if you had eaten beef transported a long distance. On the other hand, if you choose peas you will be responsible for only about 2% of the greenhouse gas emissions from producing a similar quantity of local beef.
And although beef is the worst food for emitting greenhouse gases, a broader study of the carbon footprints of food across the European Union showed that meat, dairy and eggs accounted for 83% of emissions, and transport for only 6%.
More generally, plant foods typically have far lower greenhouse gas emissions than any animal foods, whether we are comparing equivalent quantities of calories or of protein. Beef, for example, emits 192 times as much carbon dioxide equivalent per gram of protein as nuts, and while these are at the extremes of the protein foods, eggs, the animal food with the lowest emissions per gram of protein, still has, per gram of protein, more than twice the emissions of tofu.
Animal foods do even more poorly when compared with plant foods in terms of calories produced. Beef emits 520 times as much per calorie as nuts, and eggs, again the best-performing animal product, emit five times as much per calorie as potatoes.
Favourable as these figures are to plant foods, they leave out something that tilts the balance even more strongly against animal foods in the effort to avoid catastrophic climate change: the “carbon opportunity cost” of the vast area of land used for grazing animals and the smaller, but still very large, area used to grow crops that are then fed — wastefully, as we have seen — to confined animals.
Because we use this land for animals we eat, it cannot be used to restore native ecosystems, including forests, which would safely remove huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. One study has found that a shift to plant-based eating would free up so much land for this purpose that seizing the opportunity would give us a 66% probability of achieving something that most observers believe we have missed our chance of achieving: limiting warming to 1.5℃.
Another study has suggested that a rapid phaseout of animal agriculture would enable us to stabilise greenhouse gases for the next 30 years and offset more than two-thirds of all carbon dioxide emissions this century. According to the authors of this study:
The magnitude and rapidity of these potential effects should place the reduction or elimination of animal agriculture at the forefront of strategies for averting disastrous climate change.
Climate change is undoubtedly the biggest environmental issue facing us today, but it is not the only one. If we look at environmental issues more broadly, we find further reasons for preferring a plant-based diet.
Fires in the Amazon and linked to cattle ranching. Andre Penner/AP PhotoThe clearing and burning of the Amazon rainforest means not only the release of carbon from the trees and other vegetation into the atmosphere, but also the likely extinction of many plant and animal species that are still unrecorded.
This destruction is driven largely by the prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat, which makes it more profitable to clear the forest than to preserve it for the indigenous people living there, establish an ecotourism industry, protect the area’s biodiversity, or keep the carbon locked up in the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet for the sake of hamburgers.
Joseph Poore, of the University of Oxford, led a study that consolidated a huge amount of environmental data on 38,700 farms and 1,600 food processors in 119 countries and covered 40 different food products. Poore summarised the upshot of all this research thus:
A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use. It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car, as these only cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Poore doesn’t see “sustainable” animal agriculture as the solution:
Really it is animal products that are responsible for so much of this. Avoiding consumption of animal products delivers far better environmental benefits than trying to purchase sustainable meat and dairy.
Those who claim to care about the wellbeing of human beings and the preservation of our climate and our environment should become vegans for those reasons alone.
Doing so would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution, save water and energy, free vast tracts of land for reforestation, and eliminate the most significant incentive for clearing the Amazon and other forests.
This is an edited extract from Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer (Penguin Random House).
Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics in the Center for Human Values, Princeton University
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Originally published by The Conversation June 15, 2023 and republished here under the Creative Commons Licence, read original.
ENDS
Read more about human health, veganism, nutrition and why you should #Boycottpalmoil, #Boycottmeat for your own and the planet’s health
Gursky’s Spectral Tarsier Tarsius spectrumgurskyae
Gursky’s spectral tarsiers AKA Wusing of North Sulawesi are vulnerable due to palm oil and timber deforestation. Take action for them and boycott palm oil!
Read moreForest Protection Equals Climate Protection
Forests offer climate protection and safeguard indigenous peoples, endangered animals and rare plants. Deforestation is a major threat. Boycott palm oil!
Read moreBeautiful and Doomed: Saving Bangladesh’s Langurs From Extinction
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