I think Peter Singer challenged a lot of deluded, 'magical' thinking in the 1970s when he wrote in Animal Liberation about realizing that animals are not mere tools for human use, to be exploited in any and every possible way, but fellow beings. We know this about dogs and cats, but ignore it in the case of cows, sheep, ocean life, and, for example, the billions of living baby chickens we grind in "macerators" every year.[0] He is a philosopher who believes in living things. This article is just embarrassing.