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#6 — Peter Singer | Utilitarianism and Animals

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Do You Think We're Getting There Since 1975?

Animal Liberation author says there are essentially true things to be known about the immorality of the meat industry for instance. He is optimistic that we will reach a system where animal ethics is taken as seriously by people in Western nations. The number of animals in factory farms now is is much greater than it was when he wrote Animal Liberation in 1975, writes Simon Tisdall. But progress has been made on legislative improvements so not again not everywhere but if you look at the European Union which is a reasonably large and diverse entity throughout the EU I'm talking about.

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