Princeton Academic: We Should Become Vegans for the Sake of the Planet
18 hours ago Eric Worrall 92 Comments
Essay by Eric Worrall
“… Those who claim to care about the wellbeing of human beings and the preservation of our climate and our environment should become vegans …”
‘We are gambling with the future of our planet for the sake of hamburgers’: Peter Singer on climate change
Published: June 15, 2023 6.11am AEST
Peter Singer
Professor of Bioethics in the Center for Human Values, Princeton University
I wasn’t aware of climate change until the 1980s — hardly anyone was — and even when we recognised the dire threat that burning fossil fuels posed, it took time for the role of animal production in warming the planet to be understood.
Today, though, the fact that eating plants will reduce your greenhouse gas emissions is one of the most important and influential reasons for cutting down on animal products and, for those willing to go all the way, becoming vegan.
A few years ago, eating locally — eating only food produced within a defined radius of your home — became the thing for environmentally conscious people to do, to such an extent that “locavore” became the Oxford English Dictionary’s “word of the year” for 2007.
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