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 which they can live in peace. The real solution, of course, is to preserve the wild nature that created these animals and has the power to sustain them. But if it is really true that we are inevitably moving towards a world in which mountain gorillas can survive only in zoos, then we must ask whether it is really better for them to live in artificial environments of our design than not to be born at all.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals. - Peter Singer
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.
- Peter Singer
Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress … - Peter Singer
Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress …
If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit… - Peter Singer
If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit…
Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. - Peter Singer
Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.
If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally… - Peter Singer
If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally…
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval. - Peter Singer
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments. - Peter Singer
The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.
One thing is certain: you will find plenty of worthwhile things to do. You will not be bored, or lack fulfillment in your life. Most important of all… - Peter Singer
One thing is certain: you will find plenty of worthwhile things to do. You will not be bored, or lack fulfillment in your life. Most important of all…
We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans. - Peter Singer
We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans.
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