Peter Singer Urges Mankind to Seek Permission of Animals before Eating Them!

An appropriate gem of a book by, one, Dr. Peter Singer, a Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University is indicative of the fundamental discourse on animal rights. This book, titled 'Animal Liberation,' argues, ultimately, for the complete liberation of animals from human bondage, misery, torture, & genocide. Writes Dr. Singer, "it is wrong to inflict upon animals, for until now it has been assumed that animals are rightly our slaves, to use as we wish, whether to pull our carts, model human diseases for research, or give up their eggs, milk, or flesh for us to eat. Recognition by a national parliament [Spain in 2008] that it can be wrong to enslave animals is a significant step toward animal liberation."

Writes Ms. Rand, in her article, Man's Rights,

"A “right” is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man’s freedom of action in a social context. There is only one fundamental right (all the others are its consequences or corollaries): a man’s right to his own life. Life is a process of self- sustaining and self-generated action; the right to life means the right to engage in self-sustaining and self-generated action-which means: the freedom to take all the actions required by the nature of a rational being for the support, the furtherance, the fulfillment and the enjoyment of his own life. (Such is the meaning of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.)"

It, then, logically follows, that a man's right to his own life translates into freedom of action in regards to exploiting elements of nature that suit his purpose. Elements of nature, naturally, include animals which man exploits, enslaves, harnesses, domesticates, & kills to his own advantage & for protection. When Dr. Singer proposes to liberate animals by forcing, legislatively, other men to act against their judgement in respect of animals, he is proposing the enslavement of men by other men & by animals.

Dr. Singer, like all other intellectuals who advocate nonsensical rights such as ecology, animal, earth, economic, etc, is a statist whose real goal & agenda is the enslavement of men. Dr. Singer's, ostensible, emotional outrage towards atrocities perpetuated against animals is meant to mask his real emotion - which is hatred of man, his success, his survival, his prosperity, & his happiness.

Dr. Singer's outrage, observe, is never directed at other carnivorous animals that only subsist on a diet of other lesser creatures. Other mammals including Lions, Jackals, Cheetahs, & Tigers subsist, purely, on a carnivorous diet of lesser herbivorous animals, including cows & calves, for which Mr. Singer appears to exhibit the greatest pathos. It is Man who after a tortuous process of lengthy evolution came to stand at the top of the food chain. Man is, indisputably, the king of the natural jungle, whose success at subjugating, harnessing, defeating, & exploiting lesser animals from apes on down is the least of his achievements in an industrial age. It is this fact of nature or biological status of man that Mr. Singer rebels against.

The discovery of Man's individual rights, itself, has had a tortuous evolution. As Ms. Rand notes,

"The concept of individual rights is so new in human history that most men have not grasped it fully to this day. In accordance with the two theories of ethics, the mystical or the social, some men assert that rights are a gift of God—others, that rights are a gift of society. But, in fact, the source of rights is man’s nature."

She, further, goes on to explain man's nature that necessitates the political concept of individual rights -

“The source of man’s rights is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A—and Man is Man. Rights are conditions of existence required by man’s nature for his proper survival. If man is to live on earth, it is right for him to use his mind, it is right to act on his own free judgment, it is right to work for his values and to keep the product of his work. If life on earth is his purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being: nature forbids him the irrational.” (Atlas Shrugged)

This statement, itself, is a declaration that Man's greatest threat in society is not from elements of nature which he, usually, can quickly overcome. His greatest threat is from other men & the governments that men have, historically, spawned. The darkest eras in Mankind's history were not owing to bad weather or unfavourable climate change or mass invasions by other animals but to tyrannical political systems. Consequently, his most urgent need is political freedom.

It is the tyranny of Man that Dr. Singer advocates in his bestseller, 'Animal Liberation.'