In this lecture by Professor Peter Singer, he argued that we owe animals equal consideration of interests. He elaborated on what that means and what changes would be required to implement such consideration, and discussed the progress that has been made towards that goal over the past 40 years.

Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the Princeton University Center for Human Values and Laureate Professor at the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. His book, Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals (Random House, 1975), has been described as the definitive classic of the animal movement, alongside his more recent book, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005).

Media Coverage

Peter Singer Advocates for Animal Rights, The Harvard Crimson, November 10, 2013

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