A modern argument for the rights of animals | Peter Singer

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Why do we prioritize human rights over those of other species? Philosopher Peter Singer dives into what he calls "speciesism," the root of the widely ignored mistreatment of animals around the world, from factory farms to product-testing facilities. He makes the case for ending the commercial exploitation of animals for food and invites everyone to reexamine the environmental and moral weight of the status quo. This conversation, hosted by head of TED Chris Anderson, was part of an exclusive TED Membership event. Visit ted.com/membership to become a TED Member. (Warning: this conversation contains images of animal cruelty.)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	It's Ted Talks Daily, I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:13.6	If you have ever taken a philosophy class, you have probably heard of Peter Singer.
0:18.8	He's a philosopher and ethicist who has advanced many ideas, notably about the ethics of how
0:24.0	we treat animals.
0:25.9	In his 2023 conversation from a Ted membership event with head of Ted, Chris Anderson, Singer
0:31.2	offers present-day updates to his original illuminating argument and mixes it up with
0:36.3	the audience, too, after a break.
0:39.2	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:44.3	Welcome to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes us Tick.
0:49.3	I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating
0:53.7	people to explore how they think and what we should all rethink.
0:58.9	This season, we're investigating what animal intelligence reveals about human stupidity.
1:03.4	Because if there's one thing we know through the history of animal cognition studies,
1:07.2	is everything we were sure animals couldn't do turns out that they can, and that just keeps
1:11.6	progressing every year.
1:14.0	Find and follow Rethinking with Adam Grant, wherever you're listening.
1:22.8	In 1970, I was a graduate student at the University of Oxford, studying philosophy, specializing
1:29.1	in ethics, interested in the big ethical questions of the day, things like the war in Vietnam,
1:35.0	abortion, civil rights.
1:38.3	But if you'd said to me, and what about the ethics of how we treat animals, I would have
1:44.1	been taken aback.
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