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peter singer, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. it's good to be with you again. it's great to be here and have you here with me, and partly the reason is because you've written an updated, rewritten version of that book you almost five decades ago, animal liberation. it's called animal liberation now. is the publication of this update recognition that your call, your demand for a new relationship between humanity and all the other creatures on this planet, that that call failed? well, it failed to achieve what i had hoped it would achieve and what i believe ethically it needs ...

Its called Animal Liberation now. Is the publication of this Update Recognition that your call, your demand for a new relationship between humanity and all the other creatures on this planet, that that call failed . Well, it failed to achieve what i had hoped it would achieve and what i believe ethically it needs to achieve, thats true. It didnt totally fail because there is now an Animal Rights movement which is a powerfulforce in many of the countries in the world and many people kindly credit my book as having triggered or inspired that movement. And that movement has had some achievements ...

Its called Animal Liberation now. Is the publication of this Update Recognition that your call, your demand for a new relationship between humanity and all the other creatures on this planet, that that call failed . Well, it failed to achieve what i had hoped it would achieve and what i believe ethically it needs to achieve, thats true. It didnt totally fail because there is now an Animal Rights movement which is a powerful force in many of the countries in the world and many people kindly credit my book as having triggered or inspired that movement. And that movement has had some achievements...

Traditions, there are traditions that suggest that you need to be compassionate to all animals and buddhism is a part of chinese tradition, part of their ethics and, certainly, i think a true understanding of buddhist ethics would say this is not acceptable. you talk about sentient beings and that, to you, is hugely important because, as you said at the beginning of the interview, animals, as you say, feel pain, experience pain and, indeed, pleasure just as we humans do and that's why it's so important to treat them with respect. at what point do you decide that a creature doesn't experience t...

"cheap meat, just as i'm able to enjoy that, he says "�*sorry, you can't�* ? " well, i think you need to move away from it. and, you know, it's not me telling you, it's rather saying look at what you are doing to animals, look at what this system of production is doing to animals and ask yourself whether you can really defend and justify that. and, of course, within asian traditions, there are traditions that suggest that you need to be compassionate to all animals and buddhism is a part of chinese tradition, part of their ethics and, certainly, i think a true understanding of buddhist eth...