Thursday Blog: Week Seven

As I continue to read Animal Liberation by Peter Singer I have started to become far more interested in the author. Last Wednesday I attended a speech of his and now after reading more of the book, I see that he is very morally inclined person. All of the reasons he gives in his book and his speech were backed up by logic and a ethical argument. 

In the book he backs up all of his arguments with a comparison to human and people rights. An example of this is the quote blog from week seven. He expressed he idea that how can we give everyone equal rights if you exclude animals from this group. This shows how he supports his position by not only logic but also ethics. this creates a more compelling argument and makes the reader more likely to agree with him.

Source: animalcharityevaluators.org

Similarly to the way he supports his arguments in the book he also supports his argument in his speech the same way. To open he discussed effective altruism which is a philosophy and social movement that uses evidence and reasoning to determine the most effective ways to benefit others. Effective altruism encourages individuals to consider all causes and actions and to act in the way that brings about the greatest positive impact, based upon their values" (wikipedia.org). He then connected this to the way we treat animals by using this philosophy and it was a very convincing argument. He mentioned things like if everyone in the United States stopped eating meat for just one day,it would be the equivalent of taking your car off the road for five weeks or reducing everyone’s daily showers by 3 minutes. 

To learn more about the impact of reducing meat intake check out this website.

Source: progressivepodcastaustralia.com

To listen to a speech similar to the one I attended check out this podcast