Podcasts that mention 📚 Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

I personally know at least a dozen people who became vegetarian after they read his book, Animal Liberation.

Steve Levitt discusses how Peter Singer's book 'Animal Liberation' has motivated many individuals to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle.

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I was recently rereading the latest edition of your book, Animal Liberation, which was from 2015, and in the preface, you note the fact that meat consumption in the US, which had been rising for decades, suddenly fell every year from 2008 to 2015.

In a conversation about meat consumption trends in America, Steve Levitt mentions Peter Singer's book 'Animal Liberation', highlighting insights from the latest edition released in 2015.

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I probably know at least a dozen people who became vegetarian after they read his book, Animal Liberation, and the effective altruism movement is in large part the consequence of his early writings on the topic.

In this segment, podcast host Steve Levitt discusses how Peter Singer's book, Animal Liberation, influenced many individuals to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. He also highlights that the effective altruism movement owes much of its foundation to the ideas presented in Singer's earlier works.

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And I was recently rereading the latest edition of your book, Animal Liberation, which was from 2015.

In this segment, host Steve Levitt talks about recently re-reading the 2015 edition of Peter Singer's influential book, Animal Liberation.

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There are now significantly more animals in factory farms than there were when Animal Liberation was first published in 1975, and despite the fact that there's been some progress in some countries and certainly much greater awareness of the issues of factory farming and of speciesism, the suffering inflicted on animals from the point of view of how much suffering humans do inflict on animals, the world is a lot worse than it was in 1975.

In this segment, host Steve Levitt discusses Peter Singer's book, Animal Liberation, published in 1975. He highlights how the situation for animals in factory farms has worsened since then, despite some progress in awareness and advocacy for animal rights.

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He's like the inventor of effective altruism; he wrote like Animal Liberation. Now, so he's like one of the first animal rights people, and then he came up with this idea, partly based on the Stoics, which he came up with his metaphor.

During the discussion, the guest refers to 'Animal Liberation' as a significant work by Peter Singer, who is recognized as the inventor of effective altruism and one of the pioneering voices in the animal rights movement.

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