ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paola Cavalieri

Paola Cavalieri is a philosopher focusing on the extension of human rights to other animals, and the co-founder, with Peter Singer, of The Great Ape Project.

POSTS BY Paola Cavalieri

01 October 2025

Paola Cavalieri

The Philosophers’ Dinner, or the Difficulty of Dissent

For centuries, philosophical debates on killing animals for food have been self-servingly distorted. And now that the animal-industrial complex has become a global killing machinery, traditional critical thinkers remain silent on nonhuman exploitation. This contribution challenges this silence, trusting in the new radical oppositional thinking. Continue reading >>