Comments on: Ecorazzi Celebrates Vegetarian Awareness Month With Famous Author Peter Singer

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By: Jen-NYC

Jen-NYC — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:08:21 +0000

What a disappointment that Mr. Singer should feel the need to call vegans “fanatical” simply because he appears to be too lazy to stick to his own ethics when traveling.
If he’s eating eggs and dairy when he travels, then he quite literally is supporting animal exploitation, yet he contradicts himself by saying that it’s important not to support animal expoitation.
He’s worried about “turning people off” by sticking to his ethical decision of NOT supporting animal exploitation? That’s just ridiculous.
This man is certainly not my hero. He does a huge disservice to the animals by disparaging those who make a moral commitment to living a life free of animal exploitation. The last thing we need is one of our “own” calling other vegans “fanatics.” What a disgrace.
Also, a distinction should be made with Peter Singer’s philosophies. He does not believe in or advocate animal “rights.” He is a utilitarian, and as such would justify eating animals that were killed “humanely,” and would also justify animal experimentation and a host of other ghastly things, including killing babies up to 28 days old. All these things are a matter of public record–look it up. Peter Singer has publicly promoted and advocated for “Happy Meat,”(so-called “humanely raised and killed meat) and wrote a letter thanking the CEO of Whole Foods for sticking a label on the meat he sells (to convince shoppers that the animal was only to happy to die for their dinner). I’ll bet the shareholders of Whole Foods consider Singer their hero–what better person is there to delude consumers that they can be “animal advocates” while eating animals and their byproducts, as long as they pay a little extra and buy the meat with the special label on it.

By: Elaine Vigneault

Elaine Vigneault — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:16:14 +0000

Thanks for doing this interview. He’s an interesting guy. I don’t agree 100% with him, but then, I’m not going to agree 100% with most people.