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Somebody who eats twice as much factory-farmed products as he or she needs to is clearly doing twice as much damage to the planet. From a utilitarian point of view, that's twice as bad.

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Peter Singer
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: July 6
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Peter Albert David Singer
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