Despite improvements in animal welfare in some regions - brought about in large part by this book - in many others the scale of their abuse has reached staggering new depths. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Animal Liberation Now will motivate a new generation of readers who are resolutely committed to creating a just society for all' Joaquin Phoenix'The indispensable foundational text for the movement, new and updated' 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. 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.

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). 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. Animal Liberation was included in TIME Magazine 's list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923. Therefore, intelligence does not provide a basis for giving nonhuman animals any less consideration than such intellectually challenged humans.Other activists who claim that their attitudes to animals changed after reading the book include Peter Tatchell [7] and Matt Ball. 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.

Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals is a 1975 book by Australian philosopher Peter Singer. This] book is a reminder that plain, well-sourced facts, starkly presented, often speak louder than philosophical arguments . 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 is widely considered within the animal liberation movement to be the founding philosophical statement of its ideas. Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influential.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 -- J.