Animal Liberation is more important than the Bible.

Thesis: The book Animal Liberation by Peter Singer is more important in modern times than the Holy Bible. Definition: Since there is no word English to express the notion of "Any animal that is not human", "animal" does not mean that and it's a fallacy, defining a word by itself ("Animal: any animal that is not human"), I invented a word: Outcast, Outcasts in plural. It will always have a capital letter. I ask my opponent to use the same terminology. Before anything, it is important to explain Peter Singer's thesis to my opponent and to the readers. "There is no logically compelling reason for assuming that a factual difference in ability between two people justifies any difference in the amount of consideration we give to their needs and interests. The principle of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should tat human beings. (...) "Each to count for one and none for more than one." In other words, the interests of every being affected by an action are to be taken into account and given the same weight as the like interests of any other being. It is an implication of this principle of equality that our concern for others and our readiness to consider their interests ought not to depend on what they are like or on what abilities they may possess. Precisely what our concern or consideration requires us to do may vary according to the characteristics f those affected by what we do: concern for the well-being of children growing up in America could require that we teach them to read; concern for the well-being of pigs may require no more than that we leave em with other pigs in a place where there is adequate food and room to run freely. But the basic element--the taking into account the interests of the being, whatever those interests may be--must, according to the principle of equality, be extended to all beings, black or white, masculine or feminine, human or nonhuman." Animal Liberation, chapter 1- ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL The book also mentions the different ways in which Outcasts are treated to be made into corpses for the market, how Outcast experimentation destroys sentient animals for things as futile as cosmetics. It is also important that this be quickly described here. Part 1 - Outcast experimentation. "The report tells us that 1,416,643 animals were experimented on in fiscal year 2000. This number is broken down by species: 69,516 dogs, 25,560 cats, 57,518 primates, 505,009 guinea pigs, 258,754 rabbits, 23,934 sheep, 66,651 pigs, 69126 "other" farm animals, and 166,429 "other" animals. According to the report 104,202 (7.4%) of these animals were used in painful or stressful experimentation without benefit of anesthesia. (The report is Internet accessible at http://www.aphis.usda.gov... in the annual reports section.)" That is only for the USA. Source:http://www.all-creatures.org... Draize test: test used in determining how irritant a product is into eyes. Every time you see a warning on a bleach bottle saying it's irritant, you can be sure it was poured on a rabbit's eyes before hitting the shelves. This test consists in placing a potencially irritant product in an Outcast's eyes. Rabbits are commonly used as they do not have tears to can their eyes. Some images with the censor ON. Turn it off and you won't need to watch Saw 7. http://www.google.pt... LD50 test: This test aims to find the concentration of a toxic product required to kill 50% of test Outcasts. Needless to say, those that survive are extremely sick and not always put out of their misery. These are the "standard procedures". Many other imaginative tests were made, including turning female monkeys into psychopaths, using a "rape rack" to get them pregnant, and observing how they treat their children ("One of their favourite trick was to crush the infant's skull with their teeth. But the really sickening behaviour pattern was that of smashing the infant's face to the floor, and then rubbing it back and forth.", Engineering and Science 33:8 (1970) (source from PS's (Peter Singer) book). Part 2 - Turning living animal into "meat". Meat is a depreciative term, and for this reason I will prefer the term "corpse" or "flesh" to it. 1- Chickens These are used for flesh and eggs. The USA alone killed 18Billion chickens in 2008. http://www.all-creatures.org... The most important is that chickens live in what we commonly call "inhumane" conditions. They live in their own faeces, get intoxicated from it's ammonia and live in extremely small spaces. This is for the sake of profit. For green paper, in sum. 2- Veal This is possibly the most cruel form of Outcast exploitation. Calves are taken from their mothers when they are infants, fed on artificial milk and kept in boxes small enough for them to be unable to move or even turn around. They are also kept in a constant iron deficit to keep their flesh white. For this reason their cages are made out of wood, with no iron screws or other components. Calves would otherwise lick those. Other forms of flesh production are similar, simply imagine how you would make your exploitation of slave Outcasts the most productive, that's how the factories are, neglecting all the needs from Animal beings. It is now time to compare this book to the Bible. Presenting the Bible will be my opponent's burden, and so will explaining the importance of the book to today's society. Please do not use religious reasons for this, such as "It's the word of god.", it's a book with the same status as any fiction book. The importance of Animal Liberation should be quite clear by now: people ought to know that what they are eating is not meat, it's a corpse, a sentient animal that was made a slave and suffered. The point of this debate is not to debate over whether or not PS's thesis is correct, although it has been proved that Outcasts are able of the same emotions as humans, keep in mind that evolution didn't "go towards humans", and that every other species humans evolved from is not inferior in ability to us, in fact, we have common ancestors we animals capable of killing any human without needing a tool. The only thing that makes us different in brain capability is our cortex, IT DOES NOT MAKE OUR EMOTIONS MORE STRONG. That's the limbic system that many Outcasts have more developed, or at least just as developed as humans. And as a final note, I am not English, and the best I get from English culture is the internet.