“What did [Peter Singer] do? Appeal to emotions? Exploit the “single victim effect” and reinforce people’s innumeracy? No. He appeals to reason first and foremost. Why? Because our emotions are deeply out of sync with the reality of non-human suffering. I mean, we all know the facts: We know how “bad” factory farms are and what slaughterhouses do to animals. But these facts don’t sufficiently affect us because we’re not seeing them with the right eyes. Philosophy, at its best, changes our eyes for the better.”

— Adriano Mannino