We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something….

Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the re….

When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confini….

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. ….

Charitable giving is a huge sector in the United States. It amounts to $350 billion a year. And yet, I can't help feeling that a lot of that is waste….

No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude any concern for the animals themselves. But ….

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such….

If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about t….

I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, espec….

Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that we can..

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ….

When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as you do in the Jewish or I….

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….

The hope of internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the internet with its limitless possibilities of ….

If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being….

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, ….

There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine..

To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada, while continuing to eat eggs fro….

If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let them dock or a land in whi….

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselve….

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like….