Peter Singer Quotes
My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.
Singer, Peter, and Jim Mason. The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter. Rodale Books, 2006.
He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King. The link between diet and global warming lies in the fact that vegetable protein requires much less processing and materials than animal protein. Animals have to be fed to grow and produce meat protein, The feed and the care for the animals requires much more energy per unite of protein than soy beans and other high protein plants. With less energy to grow food, there will be less global warming. In addition, animals—especially cattle—expel large amounts of methane which adds to the global warming problem. Most meat eaters would prefer to use less inconvenient means to reduce greenhouse gasses.
Peter Albert David Singer AC is an Australian moral philosopher, currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues in favour of veganism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", in which he argues in favour of donating to help the global poor. For most of his career, he was a preference utilitarian, but he stated in The Point of View of the Universe (2014), coauthored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian.
