"It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild."

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Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher known for work in applied ethics, especially animal ethics, global poverty, and bioethics. His books include Animal Liberation and Practical Ethics.

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