{"id":66,"date":"2006-09-23T09:17:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T13:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2006-09-23T09:17:53","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T13:17:53","slug":"66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/23\/66\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Singer on BBC Radio 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grumpy Vegan recommends listening to BBC Radio 4&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/programmes\/iconoclasts\/\">Iconoclasts<\/a> program which is a debate featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utilitarian.net\/singer\/\">Peter Singer<\/a> and three challengers to his philosophy of &#8220;equal consideration of interests.&#8221; The program focuses on three areas: animal liberation, infanticide and tithing to charity to help the poor in developing nations. The three challengers are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenanmalik.com\/index.html\">Kenan Malik<\/a>, philosopher and author of <em>Man, Beast and Zombie<\/em>; Janet Richards, philosopher and author, <em>Human Nature After Darwin<\/em>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/resources.theology.ox.ac.uk\/staff.phtml?lecturer_code=alinzey\">Andrew Linzey<\/a>, an Anglican priest and author, <em>Animals and Christianity<\/em>. This is an excellent opportunity to hear a thoughtful debate on how Singer frames seemingly unrelated issues into his utilitarian perspective. If you were to read only one book by Singer, the Grumpy Vegan recommends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Practical-Ethics-Peter-Singer\/dp\/052143971X\/sr=1-1\/qid=1159022425\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/002-5745899-2496865?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\"><em>Practical Ethics<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grumpy Vegan recommends listening to BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Iconoclasts program which is a debate featuring Peter Singer and three challengers to his philosophy of &#8220;equal consideration of interests.&#8221; The program focuses on three areas: animal liberation, infanticide and tithing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/23\/66\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-thinking","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}