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The speaker found this latest book particularly challenging as someone who eats cheeseburgers, as it laid out the moral, philosophical, and evolutionary imperative to extend compassion to all beings, including animals.
His latest book, though, is particularly challenging to me as a guy who likes to eat cheeseburgers. It's called A Plea for the Animals, the Moral Philosophical and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All...
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The speaker found this latest book particularly challenging as someone who eats cheeseburgers, as it laid out the moral, philosophical, and evolutionary imperative to extend compassion to all beings, including animals.
His latest book, though, is particularly challenging to me as a guy who likes to eat cheeseburgers. It's called A Plea for the Animals, the Moral Philosophical and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion.
We dove into that subject and much more in this conversation.
The speaker's thesis basically is we ought to be thinking very hard about the well-being of the what is it 70 million other creatures that we share the planet with... and that we kill 60 billion land animal every year and the trillion which is a thousand billion sea animal every year that's 120 million per hour so this is food for thought you know quite literally.
I want to point out that this discomfort is the road for the next cultural change or next step in civilization when we somehow feel at odds at odds with something this window something there is not quite right.
You can't remember 8 million species 8 million species and some but that we kill 60 billion land animal every year and the trillion which is a thousand billion sea animal every year that's 120 million per hour.
