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For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest.

From Peter Singer

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.

From Peter Singer

If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are looked after, yes, that's an important point. That's definitely the best way of assuring yourself that the animals are being well treated.

From Peter Singer

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.

From Peter Singer

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

From Peter Singer

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

From Peter Singer

We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It's different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really important for that chicken, if it would work hard to try to get it, and if we can give it without sacrificing something that's really important to us, then we should.

From Peter Singer

There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the fact that nonhuman animals are conscious beings, that they can suffer.

From Peter Singer

I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.

From Peter Singer

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

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