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How should humans relate to animals?

With Steve Cooke

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There is now an extensive animal literature on how humans should treat animals. The utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer has been hugely influential in changing attitudes to, for example, factory farming. But Steve Cooke believes that Singer’s approach misses something fundamental to the ethics of human-animal relationships.

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