peter singer, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. it s good to be with you again. it s great to be here and have you here with me, and partly the reason is because you ve written an updated, rewritten version of that book you almost five decades ago, animal liberation. it s called animal liberation now. is the publication of this update recognition that your call, your demand for a new relationship between humanity and all the other creatures on this planet, that that call failed? well, it failed to achieve what i had hoped it would achieve and what i believe ethically it needs to achieve, that s true. it didn t totally fail because there is now an animal rights movement which is a powerfulforce in many of the countries in the world and many people kindly credit my book as having triggered or inspired that movement. and that movement has had some achievements in some countries, i wouldn t deny that, but if we look at it globally, there are more animals in factory farms t
Litigation you were involved in the group litiuation. Do you accept your managerial roles permitted do you accept your managerial roles permitted under required you to raise permitted under required you to raise issues faced by Sub Postmasters to Senior Management and latterly Sub Postmasters to Senior Management and latterly to the board . When subpostmasters to Senior Management and latterly to the board . And latterly to the board . When i became aware and latterly to the board . When i became aware of and latterly to the board . When i became aware of them, and latterly to the board . When i became aware of them, yes. And latterly to the board . When i became aware of them, yes. In i and latterly to the board . When i became aware of them, yes. In terms of the board, whether it was directly by myself probably not but via My Reporting Line. And directly by myself probably not but via My Reporting Line. Directly by myself probably not but via My Reporting Line. And who was our via My
Its called Animal Liberation now. Is the publication of this Update Recognition that your call, your demand for a new relationship between humanity and all the other creatures on this planet, that that call failed . Well, it failed to achieve what i had hoped it would achieve and what i believe ethically it needs to achieve, thats true. It didnt totally fail because there is now an Animal Rights movement which is a powerfulforce in many of the countries in the world and many people kindly credit my book as having triggered or inspired that movement. And that movement has had some achievements in some countries, i wouldnt 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 use and misuse than there were before, so yes, i have to accept in that sense, it has failed. Isnt your most fundamental principle a simple one . That is, that human beings have no moral, ethical right to exploit
Its called Animal Liberation now. Is the publication of this Update Recognition that your call, your demand for a new relationship between humanity and all the other creatures on this planet, that that call failed . Well, it failed to achieve what i had hoped it would achieve and what i believe ethically it needs to achieve, thats true. It didnt 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 kindly credit my book as having triggered or inspired that movement. And that movement has had some achievements in some countries, i wouldnt 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 use and misuse than there were before, so yes, i have to accept in that sense, it has failed. Isnt your most fundamental principle a simple one . That is, that human beings have no moral, ethical right to exploit
useful for you, tarmac, then that is going to be usefulfor you, you tarmac, then that is going to be useful for you, you will find that on the bbc news website live page. the other thing we have seen is a whatsapp message sent to british airways staff and it is quite interesting. it says that the national system has, they say, had to fall back to manually processing some things so there are flights landing and taking off but because some of those things are having to happen manually they are not doing them as fast as possible, it also goes on to say british airways are identifying suitable diversion airfields if required and another of your guests mentioned it might get to a situation where british planes land outside of the uk because they don t have a fuel if they don t how long it will last so also the text sent to british airways staff that