Should We All Be Vegan? | Interview with Peter Singer

Should we all be vegan or vegetarian? Does climate change require a new relationship to nature and non-human animals?

And will Covid-19 be the moment when we realise industrial farming carries devastating, unacceptable risks? Aaron Bastani speaks to author of 'Animal Liberation' and professor of Bioethics at Princeton University Peter Singer.

0:00 - Introduction
0:23 - Genesis…
2:10 - Should we all be vegan?
3:43 - Animal liberation and human liberation
7:45 - Is owning pets ethical?
12:21 - Are human beings more important than animals?
14:45 - Does the animal rights argument diminish rights to certain human beings?
17:23 - The ethics and scientific value of animal testing.
29:36 - The renaissance and animal rights.
36:46 - The animal liberation movement.
39:20 - Climate movement and Covid-19 - resurgence in veganism?
46:30 - Utilitarianism and human disability - Peter Singer’s views.
52:29 - Final thoughts.

Following the publication of this video, which led to complaints from within the disability rights movement and hurt among disabled viewers, Novara Media entered into a constructive dialogue with Disabled People Against Cuts about these concerns and how we can improve our coverage of disability issues more broadly.
As we stated at the time, Peter Singer's views on disability are not those of Novara Media, and we are committed to doing better in terms of commissioning and publishing on disability. Details of our dialogue with DPAC and our proposed actions can be found here: https://novara.media/dpac

We take onboard the criticisms both of the interview itself and the way the topics of disability and disabled infanticide were raised and framed within the interview, and accept we didn’t sufficiently challenge Singer’s views. We fully intend to learn from the feedback we’ve received and it will inform our future editorial decisions.

We considered whether to remove the interview or edit it to remove the section where Singer’s positions on disability are raised, however it has been our policy in the past to both make our mistakes and do our learning in public. As such, we are leaving the video up with this statement as an instruction to our audience and have published an article responding to Singer's positions on disabled people: https://novaramedia.com/2021/11/18/so...

Once again we acknowledge the hurt this interview caused to disabled people and we're grateful to all the disability activists who engaged with us constructively and made it possible for us to improve.
For recent coverage on disability at Novara Media see our focus series here: https://novaramedia.com/focus/disabil...

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