Animal Liberation Now

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Singer also shows how meat consumption is harming the environment and spreading new viruses worse than COVID-19. In addition, Martha Nussbaum has argued that the capability approach provides a more adequate foundation of justice than Utilitarianism can supply. The book has also received a wide range of philosophical challenges to his formulation of animal rights. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice, it is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike. 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.

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. Few books maintain their relevance – and have remained continuously in print – nearly 50 years after they were first published.Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of “speciesism,” our society’s systematic disregard of nonhuman animals, inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes toward animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them. Other activists who claim that their attitudes to animals changed after reading the book include Peter Tatchell [7] and Matt Ball. 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 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. The indispensable foundational text for the movement, new and updated with the honesty and philosophical depth characteristic of all of Singer’s work. Animal Liberation Now includes alternatives to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. It is widely considered within the animal liberation movement to be the founding philosophical statement of its ideas.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. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. 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. Few books maintain their relevance—and have remained continuously in print—nearly 50 years after they were first published.

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. 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. 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.Animal Liberation Now is written with the honesty and philosophical depth characteristic of all of Singer's work' J. Singer allows that animal rights are not the same as human rights, writing in Animal Liberation that "there are obviously important differences between humans and other animals, and these differences must give rise to some differences in the rights that each have. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. 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.