The Ethics of What We Eat

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), University of Melbourne. He specializes in practical ethics, approaching ethical issues from a utilitarian and atheistic perspective. Outside academic circles, Singer is best known for his book Animal Liberation, widely regarded as the touchstone of the animal liberation movement. Singer is also the author of Writings on an Ethical Life, Practical Ethics, and Rethinking Life and Death, among others. In Famine, Affluence, and Morality, one of Singer’s best known philosophical essays, he argues that the injustice of some people living in abundance while others starve is morally indefensible. His next book, on philanthropy and the obligations of the rich to assist the poor, is currently in progress.

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