I’m not sure which factor does more to make this a lopsided debate: the fact that it was an audience of university students, the fact that it was a self-selected audience that probably showed up already sympathetic to one side, or the fact that one side featured the world’s most prominent proponent of vegetarianism.

Here’s the story, from the Daily Princetonian: Singer wins vegetarian debate, 75-35

Bruce Friedrich, vice president for policy and government affairs for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and bioethics professor Peter Singer presented the affirmative case on the resolution, “This house believes that eating meat is unethical,” at a debate sponsored by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society….

(For those of you who haven’t heard of him, I provide a brief explanation of who Peter Singer is.)