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A planned octopus factory farm in Gran Canaria could see a million octopus suffer and die annually if campaigners don't prevail.

The James Webb Space Telescope hints at a lower number of habitable planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. Plus, nations wrestle with how to fairly share virus data, and how gene hacking gives proteins new powers. The James Webb Space Telescope hints at a lower number of habitable planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. Plus, nations wrestle with how to fairly share virus data, and how gene hacking gives proteins new powers.

Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and founder of the non-profit organisation The Life You Can Save.

We are all complicit in a global farming industry that puts profit before animal welfare — but establishing what moral principles we should be applying isn’t easy, an update of a classic book shows. We are all complicit in a global farming industry that puts profit before animal welfare — but establishing what moral principles we should be applying isn’t easy, an update of a classic book shows.

Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and founder of the non-profit organisation The Life You Can Save.

How not eating animal products could save the world, from author and activist Peter Singer and his book Animal Liberation Now.

You or i have because you are obviously not capable of having wants or preferences or being able to consent to anything, but i agree that birth in itself, the line between a foetus and a week—old infant is not really a line of sharp moral distinction. i want to put to you the words of the late harriet mcbryde johnson. now, she was a lawyer, she was a disability rights campaigner who used a wheelchair, and she said i think back in 2003 about you and your ideas, she said, "i am horrified by what...

This is bbc news. well have the headlines and all the main news storie for at the top of the hour straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. when we talk about people with the power to change the world, were usually thinking of political leaders or maybe corporate titans but today, my guest is a philosopher whos harnessed the power of ideas to influence collective behaviour. australian peter singer has spent a lifetime wrestling with ethical choices in the real world, most ...

What do you think the families of people who are currently in comas in hospital are going to think when they hear that the famous philosopher peter singer says, "you know what? "that alive human being should be taken off and experimented "on for radical new drugs." well, families of people who are brain dead will allow their organs to be used to benefit others. i think they will recognise that there is no benefit to the human in continuing to have a heart that could save the life of someone else...