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Peter Albert David Singer AC FAHA (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University.Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, utilitarian perspective.
Singer allows that animal rights are not the same as human rights, writing in Animal Liberation that "there are obviously important differences between humans and other animals, and these differences must give rise to some differences in the rights that each have." [3] In Animal Liberation, Singer argues against what he calls speciesism ...
Animal rights has been a subject of both popular and independent music since the 1970s. [1] Associated with the environmentalist musical counterculture of the previous decade, animal rights songs of the 1970s were influenced by the passage of animal protection laws and the 1975 book Animal Liberation . [ 1 ]
Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit debated the issue of animal rights in 2001 with Peter Singer. [73] Posner posits that his moral intuition tells him "that human beings prefer their own. If a dog threatens a human infant, even if it requires causing more pain to the dog to stop it, than the dog ...
Singer argued for animal liberation on the basis of utilitarianism, first in 1973 in The New York Review of Books and later in his Animal Liberation (1975), while Regan developed a deontological theory of animal rights in several papers from 1975 onwards, followed by The Case for Animal Rights (1983). [2]
Anita Bryant, the Grammy-nominated singer who later became a high-profile and controversial campaigner against gay rights in America, has died aged 84.. The New York Times reported that Bryant’s ...
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (/ b r ɪ ˌ ʒ iː t b ɑːr ˈ d oʊ / ⓘ brizh-EET bar-DOH; French: [bʁiʒit baʁdo] ⓘ; born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B., [1] [2] is a French former actress, singer, and model as well as an animal rights activist.
American R&B singer Jaheim Hoagland at the SESAC Pop Awards in 2017. Theo Wargo/GettyImages Jaheim, 43, was arrested and charged with animal cruelty by New Jersey police.