--- title: Peter Singer | TIME description: Peter Singer is professor emeritus of bioethics at Princeton University and author of many books. His latest, Consider the Turkey, was published by Princeton University Press this month. canonical: https://time.com/author/peter-singer/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/peter-singer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Peter Singer ## Peter Singer Peter Singer is professor emeritus of bioethics at Princeton University and author of many books. His latest, [_Consider the Turkey_](https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691231686/consider-the-turkey), was published by Princeton University Press this month. ## Peter Singer *  Oct 26, 2024 ### [Why Is the U.S. So Behind on Animal Welfare?](https://time.com/7098566/us-behind-europe-animal-welfare/) Most Americans care about animals but a democracy deficit and Big Money lead to abusive factory farm... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 5, 2016 ### [The Pentagon’s New Family Policies Are an Important Step](https://time.com/4209717/pentagons-family-policy/) But more needs to be done [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/peter-singer/","name":"Peter Singer"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/peter-singer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/peter-singer/"},"name":"Peter Singer","jobTitle":null,"description":"Peter Singer is professor emeritus of bioethics at Princeton University and author of many books. His latest, Consider the Turkey, was published by Princeton University Press this month.","url":"https://time.com/author/peter-singer/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```