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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 17h

Learn more about the award here: www.kindnesstrust.com/winsome-cons....

This is a photo of me with Philip and Trix Wollen, of the Winsome Constance Kindness Trust.

Kindness Medal — Winsome Constance Kindness

Sir David Attenborough (United Kingdom)

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 17h

The award comes with a cash prize, which I will be donating to effective charities working to reduce suffering and improve lives—both human and nonhuman.

My thanks to The Kindness Trust for their thoughtful recognition of the importance of expanding our circle of moral concern.

Kindness Medal — Winsome Constance Kindness

Sir David Attenborough (United Kingdom)

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 17h

I’m honoured to have been awarded the Winsome Constance Kindness Medal by The Kindness Trust, which recognises individuals who have contributed to a kinder world for people and animals.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 1d

Tune in to the podcast now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred platform.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 1d

Christine also reflects on her book The Arrogant Ape, the idea that animals have culture and intelligence in forms we often overlook, and why rethinking our place in the living world matters for both animals and humans.

You can read a summary of our conversation on my Substack here:

New Podcast Release: Christine Webb

In the latest episode of Lives Well Lived, the podcast I co-host with Kasia de Lazari-Radek, we speak with primatologist and author Christine Webb.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 1d

We discuss her time in the Namib Desert with a baboon named Bear, an experience that changed her understanding of animal minds, her path into primatology, and the ethical conflicts she faced working in a Columbia University lab where monkeys lived in cages.

New Podcast Release: Christine Webb

In the latest episode of Lives Well Lived, the podcast I co-host with Kasia de Lazari-Radek, we speak with primatologist and author Christine Webb.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 1d

In the latest episode of Lives Well Lived, Kasia and I speak with primatologist and author Christine Webb about her encounters with primates and the challenge of unlearning human exceptionalism.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 2d

It’s better for animals, for people, and for the planet

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 2d

Factory farming also worsens climate change and increases the risk of future pandemics, as we saw with swine flu before COVID-19.

The solution is clear: we should end factory farming. Each of us can play a part by avoiding animal products and choosing plant-based diets.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 2d

Factory farming isn’t necessary to feed the world. It actually reduces the food available to humans. We feed grain and soy to animals, but much of it is lost keeping their bodies warm or building body parts we don’t eat.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 3d

Listen to the full conversation on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred platform.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 3d

On “Lives Well Lived”, Christine Webb recalls a moment in the Namib Desert with a young baboon named Bear that overturned everything she’d been taught about animals. What she witnessed suggested not just empathy, but a theory of mind directed toward a member of another species.

Christine Webb on the Theory of Mind

On “Lives Well Lived”, Christine Webb recalls a moment in the Namib Desert with a young baboon named Bear that overturned everything she’d been taught about animals. What she witnessed suggested not…

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 5d

In our new piece for 'Project Syndicate,' Sankalpa Ghose and I explain how this policy shift could save millions of animal lives while advancing more accurate, human-relevant science.

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A Paradigm Shift on Animal Testing

Peter Singer & Sankalpa Ghose welcome recent bipartisan moves by US authorities to phase out a cruel, costly, and ineffective practice.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 5d

Now, both agencies have acknowledged what scientists and ethicists have long argued: animal tests are unreliable, costly, and cruel.

A Paradigm Shift on Animal Testing

Peter Singer & Sankalpa Ghose welcome recent bipartisan moves by US authorities to phase out a cruel, costly, and ineffective practice.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 5d

A major step forward in ending animal testing.

For decades, the US Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health required animal testing to predict human outcomes for all new drugs.

A Paradigm Shift on Animal Testing

Peter Singer & Sankalpa Ghose welcome recent bipartisan moves by US authorities to phase out a cruel, costly, and ineffective practice.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 6d

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 6d

the pressure to see it as a necessary step in her career, and the realisation that meaningful research could be done in the wild without such deprivation.

Listen to the full conversation on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred platform.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 6d

In our latest episode of “Lives Well Lived,” Christine Webb, author of the just-released book The Arrogant, recalls her time in a Columbia University primate lab, where monkeys lived alone in cages, never going outside. She describes the deep discomfort she felt working in those conditions,...

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 8d

I cover speciesism, equal consideration, the realities of factory farming, new science on animal sentience, and why shifting to plant-based diets is an urgent ethical priority.

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Animal Liberation Lecture at the University of the Philippines

Fifty years ago, I published Animal Liberation. In this lecture at the University of the Philippines, I look back at how the animal liberation movement began, what has changed since 1975, and the…

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 8d

Fifty years after publishing Animal Liberation, I spoke at the University of the Philippines about how the movement began, what has changed, and the challenges ahead.

Animal Liberation Lecture at the University of the Philippines

Fifty years ago, I published Animal Liberation. In this lecture at the University of the Philippines, I look back at how the animal liberation movement began, what has changed since 1975, and the…

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 11d

Suzi, my Media Director, & I were both fortunate to know Jane in different ways, and she changed each of us. It feels right to honour her together, because her life led us both to the same conviction: that change is possible, and necessary.

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Remembering Jane Goodall

The world has lost Dr Jane Goodall.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 11d

The world has lost Dr Jane Goodall. At 91, she was still travelling, still speaking, still urging us to preserve the environment and protect the chimpanzees who first brought her to the world’s attention. Her death is a loss not only to those who knew her but to the world as a whole.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 12d

In tribute, we are re-releasing that conversation today.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 12d

Kasia and I had the privilege of meeting her at her home in Bournemouth, where we recorded one of the few Lives Well Lived interviews we did in person. She had just turned 90, and was about to embark on a demanding world tour to visit the 25 Jane Goodall Institutes across the globe.

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 12d

It was exciting to see animals recognised as individuals with personalities, able to think, solve problems, use tools, and plan ahead.

I was also honoured when Jane later credited Animal Liberation with persuading her to become vegetarian, and later vegan.

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