World-Renowned Thinker Richard Dawkins Would “Like Everybody to Be a Vegetarian”
Oxford professor of ethologyre Dr. Richard Dawkins, the world’s most famous living evolutionary biologist and best-selling author of “The God Delusion,” recently declared to a huge crowd at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.: “I’d like everybody to be a vegetarian.”
“I do think it’s very important that we should campaign against cruel treatment of animals in farms and slaughterhouses. I have not the slightest doubt that they are cruelly treated and that’s terrible,” Dawkins continued.
Dawkins has been greatly influenced by Princeton philosopher Peter Singer, author of “Animal Liberation” and widely regarded as the founder of the animal rights movement. Dawkins even http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xxdMUuZXUY interviewed Singer for an award-winning British documentary series.
“I actually suspect that in 100 or 200 years’ time we may look back on the way we treated animals today as something like the way we today look back on the way our forefathers treated slaves,” Dawkins predicts.
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