Paul Shapiro

Fighting Animal Cruelty Now May Be Like Battling Segregation Yesterday

“It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves,” writes Princeton philosopher Peter Singer in his book “Practical Ethics.” “It is more difficult,” he continues, “to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them.” Indeed, when it comes…