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Monday, June 19, 2006
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i read this article by Peter Singer on The Straits Times on 17 June 2006 and thought that it is very intriguing.. Give it a read and some food for thought
The Ethics of Eating
Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. His books include Writings on an Ethical Life and One World. His most recent book, co-authored with Jim Mason, is The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter. His last piece on Webdiary was The Great Ape Debate
by Peter Singer
Global meat consumption is predicted to double by 2020. Yet in Europe and North America, there is growing concern about the ethics of the way meat and eggs are produced. The consumption of veal has fallen sharply since it became widely known that to produce so-called “white” – actually pale pink – veal, newborn calves are separated from their mothers, deliberately made anemic, denied roughage, and kept in stalls so narrow that they cannot walk or turn around.
In Europe, mad cow disease shocked many people, not only because it shattered beef’s image as a safe and healthy food, but also because they learned that the disease was caused by feeding cattle the brains and nerve tissue of sheep. People who naively believed that cows ate grass discovered that beef cattle in feed lots may be fed anything from corn to fish meal, chicken litter (complete with chicken droppings), and slaughterhouse waste.........
To continue reading, pls go to http://webdiary.com.au/cms/?q=node/1518. I dun wanna kenna any copright issues
Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2006.www.project-syndicate.org
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