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Monday, May 8, 2006 12:00 AM

The practical ethicist

"The Way We Eat" author Peter Singer explains the advantage of wingless chickens, how humans discriminate against animals, and the downside of buying locally grown food.
By Oliver Broudy

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  • Sunday, May 7, 2006 07:24 PM

    Peter Singer is a professional ethicist.

    Pray tell, how does one become a "professional ethicist"?

    Is that the same school one attends to become a "professional astrologer"? Or to get Cary Tennis's job?

    Broudy compares Singer's arguments to the kind of "freshman logic" that college students are so determined to hold onto. That sounds about right to me. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a small mind.

    Singer may eschew cows raised on chiken offal, but he's still mostly full of shit.

    —Big Mac

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