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Practical Ethics for Our Time: Peter Singer on PYP 555

The Plant Yourself Podcast

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The Importance of Suffering

When did you first think that eating animals was wrong like what was the first impulse and then how did you go about finding a philosophical basis that could sustain that perspective yeah I can date that pretty precisely it happened in 1970 so I was 24 years old. He had been reading and studying ethics already for a couple of years and yet he hadn't really thought about animals as a serious ethical issue at all.

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