“Pigs and chickens suffer like dogs and cats, but if Trump had said that Haitians ate chickens there would be no outrage. It’s hypocritical”
They have already defined him as “the most influential living philosopher”. He wrote about animal suffering, but also about human suffering. And, he guarantees, they are interconnected. He defends the moral imperative of donating money to eliminate world hunger and points the finger at the industrial exploitation of animals for food. In an interview with Expresso, Peter Singer exposes the contradictions in human thinking about animals: “Chickens can also suffer. But people still maintain this complete division between companion animals and others.”
“What people don’t realize is that actually what they’re doing is just as bad as what the Koreans or the Chinese are doing, because we eat other intelligent, sentient beings,” he also says. On a more optimistic note, he states, however, that “people will feel freer to develop appropriate attitudes toward animals when they no longer think of them as an essential part of what they eat.”
