Email correspondence with Peter Singer.

I wrote an email to Peter Singer. To my surprise I did get a brief reply.
Dear Professor Singer,
I have been a follower of your ideas for a number of years. As I
understand it, your position on domesticated animals is not if they
are slaughtered but how they are treated when they are alive. I would
agree with this idea and as far as grocery shopping goes I am a
freerangertarian. I am not the only one .From my observation there are
a significant number of people in the UK who are freerangertarian but
most of the time they have not heard the term. Eating out is bit more
difficult although there are a number of catering outlets in some
hippy areas that are freerangertarian such as Brunswick these days.
How would you compare the life of free range domestic animal to that
of their wild counterparts? Whole nature is beautiful to look at, but
up close it is a cruel, unscrupulous , efficient bastard.
What about all the other food products we obtain from animals?
When I die, as part of the circle of life I would like my corpse
turned into blood & bone fertilizer and used to grow vegetables.
His reply.
Hi,
I've written about this issue in The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason - the title in the UK was slightly different).
Peter Singer, AC
Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics
University Center for Human Values
Princeton University
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