Peter Singer Quotes About Farming

Quotes about: Farming

• The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the zoo, or by threats to endangered species; but developments in farming techniques that deprive millions of animals of freedom of movement go unreported.

  Peter Singer

  Baby, Zoos, Animal

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

• I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Holocaust, Suffering

• I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

  Peter Singer

  Farming, Modern, Gross

  "Chew the Right Thing". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

• I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. I think it ought to be governed by the standards of how it affects the individual animals, just as we'd want to deal with institutions that deal with humans by how they affect individual humans.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Thinking, Want

  "Chew the Right Thing". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

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