Like Peter Singer, I believe that preventing suffering in living beings is the most important ethical goal. On this count, human impact is ambiguous. We cause

Like Peter Singer, I believe that preventing suffering in living beings is the most important ethical goal. On this count, human impact is ambiguous. We cause a lot of animal suffering through agriculture. But we also cause a lot of animals (especially marine life) not to exist who would have otherwise. See http://foundational-research.org/publications/importance-of-wild-animal-suffering/ http://foundational-research.org/publications/importance-of-... for more discussion.