Suppose You Believe,with Peter Singer,that We Should Give Equal Consideration

question 24

Multiple Choice

Suppose you believe,with Peter Singer,that we should give equal consideration for comparable interests.And suppose you also know that currently the meat industry (which uses factory farming) causes immense suffering to millions of sentient creatures to produce only moderate pleasures for humans.What,then,follows from these statements?

• A)The meat industry in any form is an immoral enterprise and should be abolished.
• B)The meat industry in its current form is morally acceptable.
• C)The meat industry could never be morally acceptable in any way,no matter how many changes it made to industry practices.
• D)The meat industry in its current form should be abolished,but if animals were treated more humanely,a new kind of meat industry might be morally permissible.

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