Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, is Founder of the nonprofit organization The Life You Can Save. His books include
Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason), Rethinking Life and Death, The Point of View of the Universe, co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, The Most Good You Can Do, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, One World Now, Ethics in the Real World, Why Vegan?, and Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction, also with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek. In April 2021, W.W. Norton published his new edition of Apuleius’s The Golden Ass. In 2013, he was named the world's third "most influential contemporary thinker" by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute.
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甘地曾经敏锐地观察到“从一国如何对待动物当中可以看出这是否是一个伟大的国度。”人类为刀俎,动物为鱼肉,让动物减少痛苦是不折不扣的文明社会标志。
因此,将世界动物福利立法进程绘成图表,就可以作为道德进步的整体指标。上个月,世界对立的两方的表现让我们相信,尽管步履蹒跚,地球正在向文明迈进一小步。
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