Peter Singer: Time to rethink eating animals
The pandemic provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the repercussions of using animals for food. While the focus has been on wet markets, factory farming also poses a serious danger to health.
AAP: Renowned Australian bio-ethicist and animal welfare advocate Peter Singer says the coronavirus pandemic provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the global repercussions of using animals for food. “What we ought to gain is an awareness of the fact that this virus, like other recent viruses like SARS and swine flu and avian influenza, have come from the consumption of animals,” said the 73-year-old author of the 1975 classic work “Animal Liberation”…
Professor Singer added that he is sceptical that the right lessons will be learned from the outbreak, which is believed to have originated in a live-animal market in Wuhan, China. He said while the focus had been on wet markets, factory farming also posed a serious danger to health. The academic said he hoped the community would emerge from the pandemic with a greater sense of global solidarity.
“We’re all in this together, it’s one world and the things that happen in other countries have very drastic effects all over the world”… Professor Singer said the world had lost it’s sense of security – but he said that had always been a false sense. SOURCE…
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