Whaling, poaching, factory farming, we know they're wrong, yet most of us do nothing about them.

In fact, for each trip around the sun, we satisfy our collective taste buds with over 70 billion land animals and 7 trillion sea creatures.

Still, one might ask what it is that's wrong with how we treat our fellow creatures.

This is the central question of Martha Nussbaum's latest book,

Justice for Animals, our collective responsibility.

Nusbalm, who has won the most prestigious prizes in the field,

including the 2016 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, the 2018 Bergruin Prize in Philosophy and Culture,

and the 2021 Holberg Prize is currently the Ernest Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.

With over 25 books, 500 academic

papers and 55 honorary degrees, it's safe to say that Martha Nussbaum is one of the most

prolific and distinguished philosophers of our time. For Nussbaum, humans have a collective

responsibility to support the activities and conditions that allow our fellow creatures to flourish. It's time we put a stop to the injustice and bring about a better world.

Her call to action, justice for animals.

Hello! Hello and welcome to episode 122 of the Panseyecast.

Weeping and wailing, I'm Dr. Jack Zimes, and I'm joined once again by the perpetually present

Mr. Oli-Mali.

Hello?

And the flourishing being, that is, Professor

Martha Nussbaum. Thank you so much for inviting me. This is exciting. It's great to have you with us.

Now, as Olly read in the introduction, you've amassed an incredible body of work with so many books and

articles on a huge range of topics from justice and politics to literature

and revenge, all of which come under the umbrella, more or less of philosophy. In your view,

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