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Factory Farming Ignores the Suffering of Animals
The Rights of Animals, 2009
Oliver Broudy, "The Practical Ethicist: 'The Way We Eat' Author Peter Singer Explains the Advantage of
Wingless Chickens, How Humans Discriminate Against Animals, and the Downside of Buying Locally Grown
Food," Salon, May 8, 2006. This article first appeared in Salon.com, at www.salon.com. An online version
remains in the Salon archives. Reprinted with permission.
Peter Singer is the DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University who is often cited by animal rights
groups. Oliver Broudy is a writer and a former editor of the Paris Review. whose work has appeared in the New
York Times and Mother Jones.
Peter Singer is a professional ethicist. Best known for his 1975 book Animal Liberation—a canonical text of the
animal rights movement and the inspiration for untold thousands to take up vegetarianism—Singer, in the last
quarter-plus century, has published a string of books on everything from test tube babies to the ethics of
[President] George W. Bush. Considered fearless by some, and dangerous by others, virtually all agree that he is
among the most influential philosophers alive today....
Oliver Broudy: One of the things that distinguishes your new book [The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices
Matter] is all the field research that went into it. What most shocked you, over the course of doing this research?
Peter Singer: Probably this video I saw of this kosher slaughterhouse, AgriProcessors. I guess I had this idea
that kosher slaughter is more strictly controlled than normal slaughter, and when you see that video and you see
these cattle staggering around with their throats cut, and blood pouring out—by no stretch of the imagination is
this just a reflex movement. It goes on and on. And this happens repeatedly, with many different animals.
How are kosher animals supposed to be slaughtered?
They are supposed to be slaughtered with a single blow of a sharp...