The founder of an animal rights charity has raised eyebrows after asking Australians a very bizarre question about bestiality.
Animals Australia co-founder Peter Singer, a Melbourne-born philosopher, asked his 124,000 followers on social media platform X to “read and think” about an article that questioned the morality of bestiality.
The article was accompanied by an image of a human kissing a dog and was titled “Zoophilia is morally permissible.”
“This article offers a controversial perspective that calls for serious and open debate about animal ethics and sexual ethics,” Mr. Singer wrote last Thursday.
Mr Singer, who published a book arguing in favor of veganism, followed up with another tweet revealing that he had been asked if he supported the article.
“That being the case, is your official position that eating animals is not acceptable but having sex with them is?” » the question read.
Mr Singer asked his followers to consider whether they would rather be an animal who “sometimes has sexual contact” with a human or an animal sent to the slaughterhouse.
The founder of an animal rights charity has raised eyebrows after asking Australians a very bizarre question about bestiality.
“Imagine being an animal confined for your entire life in a factory farm that is too cramped for you to even turn around, let alone take a single step, so you have nothing else to do all day except to get up and lie down on a floor made of bare metal slats,” he wrote.
“Then you are piled into a truck and driven for many hours to a place where you will be massacred.
“This is what is happening to millions of pigs in the United States today, and the lives of billions of other factory-farmed animals are no better.”
He continued: “Now imagine that you are an animal living with a person who cares for you and loves you in the same way that most people love their pets, but on top of that, this person sometimes has sexual contact with you, making sure the contact doesn’t hurt you, and leaves you free to move away if you don’t like it.
“So you live out your natural lifespan and when you get old and terminally ill and distressed, your caregiver, full of sadness, gently takes you to a vet who puts you to sleep. Which animal would you rather be?
But the bioethics professor was quickly criticized by comments from disgusted readers.
‘What’s wrong with you!’ we wrote.
Another wrote that Mr. Singer’s views on animals boiled down to: “I can’t eat them.” I can fuck them.
Mr Singer urged his 124,000 Twitter followers to “read and think” about an article promoting bestiality.
Mr Singer was asked if his position was “that eating animals is not acceptable but having sex with them is” (stock image)
Some, however, kept their argument at a more academic level, like one who wrote: “It is not necessary to remove all barriers. Not all standards should be questioned.
Another commented: “There’s nothing to think about. People (almost always men) who rape and sexually assault animals should be in prison and put on the sex offenders register. Sex with someone who cannot consent is rape.
Mr Singer, a professor at the prestigious Princeton University in the United States, shared the article from the Journal of Controversial Ideas, a publication he founded.
He insisted that just because he shared an article doesn’t mean he supported his view.
“The fact that we deem an article worthy of publication does not indicate that I … agree with the opinions contained in it,” he said.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Mr Singer for comment.
