Would turning to a vegan/vegetarian diet be a first step towards restoring our moral well-being?

Question to Peter Singer, Australian Moral Philosopher and author of, ‘ Animal Liberation’- A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals (1975).

Published in the Independent on 10 September 2006.

Would turning to a vegan/vegetarian diet be a first step towards restoring our moral well-being?

NITIN MEHTA, Croydon

I’m more interested in the consequences of that change than in our moral well-being. Going veggie is a very important step, both for what it does for the animals, and what it does to reduce pressure on the environment. It has also been shown to be the single most effective thing that the average person can do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Peter Singer,