Singer argues that eating meat is speciesism because it involves sacrificing the most important interests of members of other species for relatively trivial interests of our own species. Does he have a point here? Is there any reason that you can give why our preference for meat dishes is more important than an animal’s interest in not being killed (and raised in captivity)?

This is not as easy as it looks! To begin you will need to explain Singer’s basic view on speciesism and the eating of meat. Then explain whether there’s any way around Singer’s challenge. (You cannot resolve this problem just by saying that eating meat is what we’ve always done, or that not eating meat would be hard!)

Required word count – 400