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Ethics Of Attention Podcast

The Iris Murdoch Society podcast

CHAPTER

The Difference Between Attention and Morality

You've been very active in discussing attention in relationship to animal welfare and you've just touched on briefly about your change to veganism. Could you say a little bit about that? Was it your kind of involvement in this particular branch of ethics that led you into veganism or was it thinking, or was it the other way round? How's that been working for you? Yeah, I think it was thinking about animals that made me think more about ethics in general. And when it wasn't any argument that convinced me - reading an article in the newspaper about farm animals,. It was just an article describing farm animals. That is what changed everything for me.

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