
#6 — Peter Singer | Utilitarianism and Animals
Within Reason
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Is There Something to Celebrate or Is It Something to Say
I think that if people in the animal move and focus only on the continuing atrocities that we inflict on animals they will feel that it's all hopeless and go away and not do something. I look at things like when people do Meatless Monday or something because to me it's like the equivalent of saying well you know I let my slaves run free on a weekend. If you recognize that it's bad enough to stop doing it on Monday then why are you still doing it on Tuesday so that's the way I view it how do you feel about Meatless Mondays? We're more likely to succeed in getting everybody in the UK or most people in the UK to give up meat one day a week
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