Animals Should Be Off The Menu

2012-04-15T06:41:50.328Z

IQ2 Debate: Animals Should be Off the Menu.

Animals Should Be Off the Menu – this was the central proposition at this IQ2 debate at The Wheeler Centre – a passionate debate about the ethics of eating flesh.

FOR the proposition is philosopher and vegetarian Peter Singer. He’s also the man credited with starting the animal rights movement. He has a lot of vocal supporters in the hall!

The hecklers reserve their ire for Adrian Richardson, head chef at La Luna restaurant in Melbourne who declares he loves meat and will eat anything with a pulse!

The two other members of Singer’s team are Philip Wollen, former vice president of Citibank and founder of the Kindness Trust and Veronica Ridge, Life and Style editor from The Age.

Wollen is highly emotional in his argument, declaring that we murder animals at our peril and ...’ If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we wouldn’t be having this debate tonight”.

On Adrian Richardson’s team is Fiona Chambers, an organic farmer from Daylesford who farms organic pigs. Her argument is that animals are a vital link in global ecology and that breeding rare animals for consumption is a way of preventing them from becoming extinct. Animal scientist Bruce McGregor is the third member of their team.

In every IQ2 debate the audience are polled before and after. Pre debate, those FOR the proposition registered 65%. Pre debate, AGAINST registered 22.5%. Post debate, FOR the proposition – 71.6%. Post debate, AGAINST 19.5%

It was a resounding win FOR the proposition that Animals Should Be Off the Menu

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Animals Should Be Off The Menu