"An estimated 1.4 billion people survive on incomes of $1.25 or less a day. Some 2.6 billion people worldwide have one thing in common—they do not have access to sanitation. Worldwide, about 1.7 ...

Synopsis of Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: Penguin, 2006). Discussed at Digging Deeper (www.ufppc.org) on February 18, 2008.

If we could easily save the life of a child, we would. For example, if we saw a child in danger of drowning in a shallow pond, and all we had to do to save the child was wade into the pond, and pul...

In 1985 Peter Singer published In Defense of Animals (New York: Blackwell), a seminal volume in the field of animal ethics and politics that gathered together contributions from a number of leading...