Animal Liberation Now

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S. states—but also shows us the impact of the huge expansion of factory farming due to the exploding demand for animal-derived products in China. In 1975, Animal Liberation started a worldwide movement when it revealed the abuse of animals in factory farms and laboratories.

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. Gareth Walsh, " Father of animal activism backs monkey testing", The Sunday Times, November 26, 2006. This led Singer to inquire as to why and then to read Ruth Harrison's book, Animal Machines, as well as a paper by Roslind Godlovitch (who would later co-edit Animals, Men and Morals), which convinced him to become a vegetarian and to take animal suffering seriously as a philosophical issue.Few books maintain their relevance – and have remained continuously in print – nearly 50 years after they were first published. In an essay entitled "Animal Liberation: A Personal View", Singer describes the personal background that led to his adoption of the views he sets out in Animal Liberation. In Animal Liberation Now, Singer exposes the chilling reality of today’s factory farms and product-testing procedures, destroying the spurious justifications behind them and showing just how woefully we have been misled.

A revised edition, titled Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed, was released on 23 May 2023. animal welfare' Guardian'Raises ethical questions that every human being should take to heart' Yuval Noah Harari In 1975, Animal Liberation started a worldwide movement when it revealed the abuse of animals in factory farms and laboratories. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice, it is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike. 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. This] book is a reminder that plain, well-sourced facts, starkly presented, often speak louder than philosophical arguments .It is widely considered within the animal liberation movement to be the founding philosophical statement of its ideas.

He is professor of bioethics at Princeton University and has published numerous books, including The Life You Can Save (2009) , The Most Good You Can Do (2015) and Ethics in the Real World (2016). 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. Much more importantly, though, Professor Singer’s book helped define and build the movement that is fundamentally shifting the way humans relate to our fellow animals and that will eventually end the barbaric treatment of billions of sentient individuals.

This edition, revised from top to bottom, covers important reforms in the European Union, and now in various U. 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.

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