Burger King Shifts Policy on Animals

[kesher]

Being a vegetarian, I don't eat at Burger King/Hungry Jack's a great deal (though more than I'd like to), but it's still encouraging to see them taking a step in the right direction; as far as I'm aware this is the first time any of the major fast food chains has done such a thing

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[find_persephone]

B, have you ever read Peter Singer's 'The Ethics of What we Eat'?

[kesher]

No, but it's on my rather enormous to do list. I've read outtakes of his stuff before, and I think he's enormously fascinating. Incidentally, he's Laureate Professor of Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Melb Uni, so I should hopefully get the chance to hear him speak a couple of times in the next two years - that's pretty exciting.

I like his outlook on vegetarianism. One of my tutors is apparently good friends with him, and she told us how it's always a compelling experience having lunch with him - he (obviously) refuses to eat meat coming from cows, pigs etc., but will happily munch away at, say, shrimp (I think), and makes other such distinctions based on an animal's capacity for pain. He lives everything he preaches down to the letter and is always thinking the implications of his decisions through: it's nice to know it's not just rhetoric.