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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). The moral philosopher Roger Scruton criticised Singer's works, including Animal Liberation, saying that they "contain little or no philosophical argument. Few books maintain their relevance—and have remained continuously in print—nearly 50 years after they were first published. Singer also shows how meat consumption is harming the environment and spreading new viruses worse than COVID-19. Animal Liberation was included in TIME Magazine's list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923.

It is widely considered within the animal liberation movement to be the founding philosophical statement of its ideas. It demonstrated that these and other practices were the cause of appalling and unnecessary suffering and therefore morally indefensible. In Animal Liberation Now, Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory farms" and product-testing procedures, destroying the spurious justifications behind them and showing us just how woefully we have been misled.It features a new foreword by Yuval Noah Harari and two-thirds of the book consists of entirely new material and it also documents changes in animal welfare since the book's original publication, along with other developments, such as the impact of meat consumption on climate and on the risk of spreading dangerous new viruses.

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. 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.A revised edition, titled Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed, was released on 23 May 2023. Singer himself rejected the use of the theoretical framework of rights when it comes to human and nonhuman animals. Few books maintain their relevance – and have remained continuously in print – nearly 50 years after they were first published. Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals is a 1975 book by Australian philosopher Peter Singer. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice, it’s essential reading for animal rights supporters and skeptics alike.

For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Animal Liberation Now includes alternatives to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. It looked as if real changes were possible, and I let myself believe that this would be one of them. Other activists who claim that their attitudes to animals changed after reading the book include Peter Tatchell [7] and Matt Ball.Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"—our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals—inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them.

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.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. Activist Ingrid Newkirk wrote of Animal Liberation, "It forever changed the conversation about our treatment of animals. 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. 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.

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