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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 12h

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Lives Well Lived

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 12h

On “Lives Well Lived”, Christine Webb recalls a moment in the Namib Desert with a young baboon named Bear that overturned everything she’d been taught about animals. What she witnessed suggested not just empathy, but a theory of mind directed toward a member of another species.

Christine Webb on the Theory of Mind

On “Lives Well Lived”, Christine Webb recalls a moment in the Namib Desert with a young baboon named Bear that overturned everything she’d been taught about animals. What she witnessed suggested not…

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 2d

In our new piece for 'Project Syndicate,' Sankalpa Ghose and I explain how this policy shift could save millions of animal lives while advancing more accurate, human-relevant science.

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A Paradigm Shift on Animal Testing

Peter Singer & Sankalpa Ghose welcome recent bipartisan moves by US authorities to phase out a cruel, costly, and ineffective practice.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 2d

Now, both agencies have acknowledged what scientists and ethicists have long argued: animal tests are unreliable, costly, and cruel.

A Paradigm Shift on Animal Testing

Peter Singer & Sankalpa Ghose welcome recent bipartisan moves by US authorities to phase out a cruel, costly, and ineffective practice.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 2d

A major step forward in ending animal testing.

For decades, the US Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health required animal testing to predict human outcomes for all new drugs.

A Paradigm Shift on Animal Testing

Peter Singer & Sankalpa Ghose welcome recent bipartisan moves by US authorities to phase out a cruel, costly, and ineffective practice.

www.project-syndicate.org

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 3d

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Lives Well Lived

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 3d

the pressure to see it as a necessary step in her career, and the realisation that meaningful research could be done in the wild without such deprivation.

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Lives Well Lived

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 3d

In our latest episode of “Lives Well Lived,” Christine Webb, author of the just-released book The Arrogant, recalls her time in a Columbia University primate lab, where monkeys lived alone in cages, never going outside. She describes the deep discomfort she felt working in those conditions,...

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 5d

I cover speciesism, equal consideration, the realities of factory farming, new science on animal sentience, and why shifting to plant-based diets is an urgent ethical priority.

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Animal Liberation Lecture at the University of the Philippines

Fifty years ago, I published Animal Liberation. In this lecture at the University of the Philippines, I look back at how the animal liberation movement began, what has changed since 1975, and the…

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 5d

Fifty years after publishing Animal Liberation, I spoke at the University of the Philippines about how the movement began, what has changed, and the challenges ahead.

Animal Liberation Lecture at the University of the Philippines

Fifty years ago, I published Animal Liberation. In this lecture at the University of the Philippines, I look back at how the animal liberation movement began, what has changed since 1975, and the…

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 8d

Suzi, my Media Director, & I were both fortunate to know Jane in different ways, and she changed each of us. It feels right to honour her together, because her life led us both to the same conviction: that change is possible, and necessary.

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Remembering Jane Goodall

The world has lost Dr Jane Goodall.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 8d

The world has lost Dr Jane Goodall. At 91, she was still travelling, still speaking, still urging us to preserve the environment and protect the chimpanzees who first brought her to the world’s attention. Her death is a loss not only to those who knew her but to the world as a whole.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 9d

In tribute, we are re-releasing that conversation today.

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Lives Well Lived

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 9d

Kasia and I had the privilege of meeting her at her home in Bournemouth, where we recorded one of the few Lives Well Lived interviews we did in person. She had just turned 90, and was about to embark on a demanding world tour to visit the 25 Jane Goodall Institutes across the globe.

Lives Well Lived

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 9d

It was exciting to see animals recognised as individuals with personalities, able to think, solve problems, use tools, and plan ahead.

I was also honoured when Jane later credited Animal Liberation with persuading her to become vegetarian, and later vegan.

Lives Well Lived

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 9d

Today we received the sad news that Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91.

Jane was the greatest of all primatologists, and her death is a loss not only for those who knew her, but for the world. I remember the impact her book In the Shadow of Man had on me when I first read it in 1971.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 10d

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 10d

A hen spends her life in a cage no bigger than an iPad, unable to spread her wings.

This #WorldFarmAnimalsDay, let's change that. For less than a dollar, you can help free a hen, and your donation gets a 50% boost all week long. With your help, we can free 100,000 hens.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 13d

Listen to our full conversation on “Lives Well Lived” streaming now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred platform.

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Lives Well Lived

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 13d

Before entering politics, Barry Jones became a star of the 1960s quiz show Pick a Box, rarely getting an answer wrong. His curiosity was shaped by childhood memories of the Depression and a conviction that “everything was related to everything else.”

Barry Jones on being a quiz champion

Before entering politics, Barry Jones became a star of the 1960s quiz show Pick a Box, rarely getting an answer wrong. His curiosity was shaped by childhood memories of the Depression and a…

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 16d

Animals can suffer and feel pain. Their interests should count. That’s why I believe the real moral issue is not simply killing, but the way we treat them and the suffering we impose.

Credit: William Crawley Meets…, 2007

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 16d

When I first became vegetarian, it wasn’t because I thought killing animals was always wrong. It was because I learned about factory farming and the immense suffering we inflict on sentient beings when we raise and slaughter them for food.

There are differences in the wrongness of killing

When I first became vegetarian, it wasn’t because I thought killing animals was always wrong. It was because I learned about factory farming and the immense suffering we inflict on sentient beings…

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 16d

Hear our full conversation on “Lives Well Lived”, available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred platform.

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Lives Well Lived

Philosophy Podcast · Lives Well Lived is hosted by Peter Singer & Kasia de Lazari Radek. Episodes consist of interviews with remarkable guests who have lived well, both in the sense of living an…

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 16d

Barry Jones made his mark as a politician by helping to end the death penalty in Australia - an issue he had cared about since childhood. He describes that fight as his most emotionally satisfying achievement.

Barry Jones on the Death Penalty

Barry Jones made his mark as a politician by helping to end the death penalty in Australia - an issue he had cared about since childhood. He describes that fight as his most emotionally satisfying…

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 19d

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Lives Well Lived

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