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#633 - Peter Singer - Are You An Evil Person For Eating Meat?

Modern Wisdom

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The Importance of Ethical Eating Habits

When he wrote and released the first version of animal liberation in 1975, I thought that this argument was so obvious and compelling. If we were more rational, if we were more moved by ethics, more ethical, I'm sure it would. To avoid the tragedy of the commons, you either need government regulation or you need individual ethical action. We don't have government regulation that's taking the right stand on industrial animal production yet, so we need ethical action. The eating habits go very deep and are hard to change.

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