Peter Singer Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer who keeps an animal of comparable intelligence in this manner, however, is more likely to be rewarded with a tax concession or, in some countries, a direct government subsidy.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Dog, Animal

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

• If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Animal, Protection

  "Religion's regressive hold on animal rights issues" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2010.

• We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Pain, Fall

  "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

• Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Jobs, Children

  "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

• If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Believe, Animal

• Take for example providing a guide dog for a blind person. That's a good thing to do, right? All right. It is a good thing to do. But you have to think what else you could do with the resources. It costs about $40,000 to train a guide dog and train the recipient so that the guide dog can be an effective help to a blind person. It costs somewhere between 20 and $50 to cure a blind person in a developing country if they have trachoma. So you do the sums, and you could provide one guide dog for one blind American or you could cure between 400 and 2,000 people of blindness.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Dog, Thinking

  "Peter Singer: How Can We Be More Effective Altruists?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 26, 2017.

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