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In 1975, Animal Liberation started a worldwide movement when it revealed the abuse of animals in factory farms and laboratories.

Other activists who claim that their attitudes to animals changed after reading the book include Peter Tatchell [7] and Matt Ball. The book has also received a wide range of philosophical challenges to his formulation of animal rights. Singer also shows how meat consumption is harming the environment and spreading new viruses worse than COVID-19. The indispensable foundational text for the movement, new and updated with the honesty and philosophical depth characteristic of all of Singer’s work. S. states, but on the flip side, Singer shows us the impact of the huge expansion of factory farming due to the exploding demand for animal products in China.In a lengthy debate in Slate, published in 2001, Richard Posner wrote, among other things, that Singer failed to see the "radicalism of the ethical vision that powers [his] view on animals, an ethical vision that finds greater value in a healthy pig than in a profoundly intellectually challenged child, that commands inflicting a lesser pain on a human being to avert a greater pain to a dog, and that, provided only that a chimpanzee has 1 percent of the mental ability of a normal human being, would require the sacrifice of the human being to save 101 chimpanzees. Animal Liberation is a book that has been in print for almost 50 years and has inspired a movement to transform our attitudes towards animals. It also discusses the toll that meat consumption is taking on the environment and the profound risk factory farms pose for spreading new viruses potentially even worse than the one that causes COVID-19. This edition, revised from top to bottom, covers important reforms in the European Union, and now in various U.

Animal Liberation was included in TIME Magazine's list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923. Widely recognized as the foundational text within the animal liberation movement, Peter Singer's Animal Liberation opened my eyes to the radical philosophy that all animals are worthy of equal consideration. Animal Liberation Now is written with the honesty and philosophical depth characteristic of all of Singer's work' J.Utilitarianism, Nussbaum argues, ignores adaptive preferences, elides the separateness of distinct persons, misidentifies valuable human/non-human emotions such as grief, and calculates according to "sum-rankings" rather than inviolable protection of intrinsic entitlements. He argues that animals' rights should be based on their capacity to feel pain more than on their intelligence. This] book is a reminder that plain, well-sourced facts, starkly presented, often speak louder than philosophical arguments .

He became well known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975 and has been a leading thinker and campaigner in the field of animal rights ever since. Gareth Walsh, " Father of animal activism backs monkey testing", The Sunday Times, November 26, 2006.

In the fifty years since, science has further vindicated Peter Singer's arguments about animal sentience, vegetarianism has become widespread, and the book has helped change the minds of millions. Animal Liberation Now includes alternatives to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. It demonstrated that these and other practices were the cause of appalling and unnecessary suffering and therefore morally indefensible. As you’d expect given the extent of animal abuse in our society, the content can be pretty hard-hitting, but it’s not bleak or pessimistic - when I came to the end, I didn’t feel depressed, but rather energised to fight to prevent humans’ mistreatment of other animals.

For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Animal Liberation was included in TIME Magazine 's list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923.Philosopher Peter Singer's Groundbreaking Work Turns 40 | A Message From PETA's President | All About PETA | About". Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals is a 1975 book by Australian philosopher Peter Singer.

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