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• Hunger and Hypocrisy

  
  Dangerous Intersection — Authority: 480
  Peter Singer offered this challenge in the Oct/Nov issue of Free Inquiry ( not available on-line ): Imagine that you are walking through a park past a shallow ornamental pond, and you notice that a child has fallen into that pond and seems to be in danger of drowning. You look around for the parents or the ...
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• FADFILM:ICA FILMS PRESENTS EXAMINED LIFE through to 13th Dec

  
  FADwebsite — Authority: 483
  EXAMINED LIFE Philosophy is in the streets! A film by Astra Taylor,90 minutes, United States 2008Featuring: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Michael Hardt, Martha Nussbaum, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Sanura Taylor, Cornel West and Slavoj Zizek “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates Taking ...
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• Professor Peter Singer: we should pay more to help the poor..

  
  BBC World Have Your Say — Authority: 507
  This is Professor Peter Singer. He believes animals have the same rights as human beings and some human lives are not worth saving. Now, in his new book he says we should all be asking ourselves what we could be doing to eradicate world poverty.The onus is on people of the developed world – people [...]
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• Peter Singer: it’s time to change our relationship with animals

  
  BBC World Have Your Say — Authority: 507
  Here’s more on Peter Singer’s beliefs on our relationship with animals. All this text is quoted from this Princeton website. Have a read, and if you have a question or point for Prof Singer , post it here.Q. I’ve read that you think humans and animals are equal. Do you really believe that a [...]
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• Peter Singer interview

  
  BBC World Have Your Say — Authority: 507
  This is our guest today…parts two and three here
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• This Thanksgiving, Remember Meat Is Murder [Vegetarians]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 860
  How to ruin Thanksgiving for the heartless carnivores in your family this year? You can make them watch this PETA ad. Thats mildly annoying. Or have them read this NYT vegan op-ed. Thatll do it. Peter Singer for Thanksgiving King!
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• Professor Peter Singer : we should pay more to help the poor..

  
  BBC World Have Your Say — Authority: 507
  This is Professor Peter Singer. He believes animals have the same rights as human beings and some human lives are not worth saving. Now, in his new book he says we should all be asking ourselves what we could be doing to eradicate world poverty.The onus is on people of the developed world – people [...]
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• Meat’s the new tobacco

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 446
  Lord Stern, who last month suggested we should all become vegetarian for the good of the environment , has an ally in Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princton University. Writing in the New York Daily News under the headline, Make meat eaters pay: Ehicist proposes radical tax, says they’re killing ...
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• Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer: Mau-Mauing the Flesh Eaters

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 129
  By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Back in 1990, when a scholar named Carol J. Adams published “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory,” it was nominated for the Diagram Prize, an annual award given to the book with the most inherently ludicrous title. It’s coming back into print next March, and ...
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• Mau-Mauing the Flesh Eaters

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 129
  By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Back in 1990, when a scholar named Carol J. Adams published “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory,” it was nominated for the Diagram Prize, an annual award given to the book with the most inherently ludicrous title. It’s coming back into print next March, and ...
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• Examined Life review

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Astra Taylor Slavoj Zizek Peter Singer Cornel West. Rating:
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• Utilitarianism: What is it? Why does it not work?

  
  T h e o p h i l o g u e — Authority: 407
  The following is a mixture of my own thoughts and thoughts from “The Moral Course of Thinking” in  Gathered for the Journey: Moral Theology in Catholic Perspective , ed. David Matzko McCarthy and M. Therese Lysaught. Grand Rapids: Michigan: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007. pp. 1-19. Two of the most ...
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• SF Green Festival, meatball awards, the miracle of birth, delicious local tofu, Czech dumplings, urban gardening and more in this weeks link-o-rama!GE

  
  vegansaurus! — Authority: 566
  Green Fest is in San Francisco this weekend; let Vegansaurus guide you through it. Win a copy of 500 Vegan Recipes ! Hurry up and do it by Tuesday, Nov. 17! The clever fuckers at the California Milk Advisory Board will be filming their latest “Happy Cows come from California” commercials in New Zealand . ...
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• Free Talk Tonight with Rabbi Joseph Telushkin: Tzedakah is Not Charity at the Silicon Valley JCC

  
  Jews' Next Dor — Authority: 125
  One Community One Book: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin November 5th | 7:30pm Rabbi Joseph Telushkin of the Synagogue for the Performing Arts (Los Angeles) speaks on the topic of “Tzedakah is Not Charity.” This FREE event is part of the One Community One Book program, which encourages everyone in Silicon Valley’s ...
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• Taxing meat, hacking Ikes, saving birds & bunnies, junk science and MORE in this weeks link-o-rama

  
  vegansaurus! — Authority: 566
  I missed you guys! So much, I made this big old link-o-rama just for you! That means extra swears, I know how much you love the dirty stuff. LATE EDIT, UGH : In Defense of Animals and the SF Vegetarian Society are co-hosting a vegan halloween party on Saturday, Oct. 31! Check out A.Muse Gallery at 614 Alabama St. ...
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• Congratulating Peter Singer

  
  GARY PRESLEY — Authority: 117
  There is an article in The Daily Princetonian celebrating Peter Singers ten year anniversary at that institution. Of no special import, this article, other than it accused one of the groups leading the opposition to Singers appointment -- the disability rights organization, Not Dead Yet -- of staging "violent ...
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• Mika Channels Monty Python

  
  Joust The Facts — Authority: 123
  Anyone recall the tax theories of Mr. Gumby? Via Newsbusters, Mika Brzezinski looks approvingly at a NY Daily News op-ed from Princeton professor Peter Singer supporting taxes not on people who stand in water, but on things people do that she and Dr. Singer dont like - drinking soda and...
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• Miscellaneous News

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  The world is full of outrageous cases . This one reminds me a bit of the horrific Janet Chandler gang rape and murder case in 1979. It wasnt solved for close to thirty years because none of the numerous witnesses and participants would come forward . More about the Chandler case is here . _____ A coyote ...
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