recognition that your call, your demand for a new relationship between humanitarian maker for humanity and all the other creatures on this planet, but the call failed? ~ ., ., failed? well, it failed to achieve failed? well, it failed to achieve what failed? well, it failed to achieve what i failed? well, it failed to achieve what i had - failed? well, it failed to l achieve what i had hoped failed? well, it failed to i achieve what i had hoped it would achieve and what i believe ethically it needs to achieve, that s true. it did not totally fail because there is now an animal rights movement which is a powerful force in many of the countries in the world and many people currently credit my book as having triggered or inspired that movement. and that movement has had some achievements in some countries. i would not deny that. but if we look at it globally, there are more animals in factory farms than there were ever before and there are more animals suffering from human
animal meat is extraordinarily bad for climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. i think 15% possibly of all the world s emissions can be ascribed to livestock farming. does that help your argument? i think it does help and one of the reasons i wanted to bring out a new version is to include climate change in the discussion that i already had in the book about reasons for an ethical diet. what is it to lead iten ethical diet. and i think it is one of the easier ways we can cut greenhouse gases, we don t need new technologies, we don t need to redo the power grid, wejust have to stop eating meat and as you say, we will cut that 15% and that s really going to be important in the battle to avoid catastrophic climate change. avoid catastrophic climate chance. ., avoid catastrophic climate chance. . change. yeah, you don t necessarily change. yeah, you don t necessarily need - change. yeah, you don t necessarily need to - change. yeah, you don t necessarily need to stopj change. yea
discount or even completely ignore their pain and suffering. ignore their pain and sufferinu. ., . ., suffering. and on reflection, do ou suffering. and on reflection, do you think suffering. and on reflection, do you think it suffering. and on reflection, do you think it was - suffering. and on reflection, do you think it was useful i suffering. and on reflection, | do you think it was useful for you at the very outset of this argument to say to all of us human beings in animal liberation, the original work, useful to say, we should view the way that we exploit and abuse animals as use the words busiest, but also as akin to slavery or racism? something that we now regard as something completely unacceptable. you think that resonated with most of humanity? of humanity? well, i said that because i of humanity? well, i said that because i wanted of humanity? well, i said that because i wanted to of humanity? well, i said that because i wanted to get - of humanity? well
persuaded everybody to look at it in this way. but i want people to see the analogies between those racism, sexism and speciesism. and speciesism. now, you talk about the and speciesism. now, you talk about the degree and speciesism. now, you talk about the degree to and speciesism. now, you talk about the degree to which - and speciesism. now, you talk about the degree to which you | about the degree to which you are disappointed and you talked about exploitation of animals through, for example, factory farming. it is part of the problem here that the book and the updated book, they have a much wider audience and arguably, much greater influence, in the western world of which, of course, you are a part and they do in the developing and emerging economies of this world. i m thinking for example of china, where actually, the argument right now is perhaps most humane and most important because it is in countries like china that the massive expansion of meat consumption and of i
the world, most notably in the field of animal rights. five decades after first publishing his manifesto calling for animal liberation, has the movement he inspired become unstoppable? peter singer, welcome to hardtalk. peter singer, welcome to hardtalk peter singer, welcome to hardtalk. a, ~ ,, , hardtalk. thank you, stephen. it s aood hardtalk. thank you, stephen. it s good to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. it s good to be hardtalk. thank you, stephen. it s good to be with hardtalk. thank you, stephen. it s good to be with you - hardtalk. thank you, stephen. it s good to be with you again. i it s good to be with you again. it s good to be with you again. it s great to be here and have you with me and partly the reason is because you have written an updated rewritten version of the book you almost five decades ago, animal liberation. it is called animal liberation. it is called animal liberation now. is the publication of this update