Animals — Us and them? How does loving animals go together with industrial farming?

Humans have a conflicted relationship with animals: We love our pets and admire our wildlife. But we continue the industrial production of dairy, meat and eggs, that often leaves animal suffering in dreadful conditions. We create a division between US and THEM, if it suits us. What does that say about how we value animals in our lives? Presented at the Byron Writers Festival Speakers Peter Singer Bioethicist and author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, and The Buddhist and the Ethicist Founder of the charity The Life You Can Save and co-hosts of the Lives Well Lived podcast James Bradley Award-winning author of Deep Water: The World in the Ocean Laura Jean McKay Award-winning author of The Animals in That Country and Gunflower Dr David Roland Clinical psychologist and honorary associate with the School of Medicine, University of Sydney

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