What does it mean to assert that animals have rights?

If they have rights, what does that say about consuming meat for food?

If animals do not have rights, how do we justify laws that prevent cruelty to animals?

We're going to discuss these and much more around a revision of a very influential book

by Princeton philosopher Peter Singer called Animal Liberation Now.

I'm your host Sean McDow.

I'm your co-host Scott Ray.

This is Think Vivically, both an audio and a YouTube version of our typical conversation.

This book absolutely fascinating me, Scott.

I know your expertise is in ethics

and you've studied this for a while,

so I want to lean on you for your insights in this, but he wrote this 25 years ago.

Maybe give an audience some context of who Peter Singer is and how significant the first book is and his contribution is to the idea of

animal rights. Yeah I'd say the one thing that's that changed between the first

and the second edition is the edition of the red letter now.

Now.

So he's, okay.

So there's a sense of urgency to it that was not in the first one.

Peter Singer is an Australian philosopher who's had a long time

endowed chair at Princeton.

A very controversial appointment.

Yeah.

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