Animal Liberation Now

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It looked as if real changes were possible, and I let myself believe that this would be one of them. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. By submitting this form, you are agreeing to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal info in accordance with our privacy policy as well as to receiving e-mails from us. In the fifty years since, science has further vindicated Peter Singer's arguments about animal sentience, and the book has helped change the minds of millions.

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. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. 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.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.

It refines its arguments in light of new evidence, equips the reader with fresh tools and advice, and shows us all the road ahead.

It demonstrated that these and other practices were the cause of appalling and unnecessary suffering and therefore morally indefensible. Other activists who claim that their attitudes to animals changed after reading the book include Peter Tatchell [7] and Matt Ball.

To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. 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. 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 is a book that has been in print for almost 50 years and has inspired a movement to transform our attitudes towards animals. Singer himself rejected the use of the theoretical framework of rights when it comes to human and nonhuman animals. The revised edition, Animal Liberation Now, covers important reforms and sheds light on the impact of factory farming in China.