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Animal Liberation

by Peter Singer
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Overview

The Book That Started A Revolution

Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere β€” inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past.

In this newly revised and expanded edition, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory forms" and product-testing procedures β€” offering sound, humane solutions to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency and justice, Animal Liberation is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.

Animal Liberation is the revised and updated edition of the definitive animal liberation text, that reports that many of the abuses of the past have decreased, serious new offenses have taken their place. This book will attract supporters and skeptics alike because of its persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice.

Synopsis

Immensely influential and powerful, "Animal liberation" is also highly unusual. A comprehensive analysis of conditions in factory farms and animal laboratories, it compellingly argues that we should stop eating meat. A work of philosophy, it includes recipes for vegetarian food. In this revised edition, Peter Singer discusses the evolution of the animal rights movement and the extent to which his own views have changed since first publication in 1975. He also graphically updates his account of what is being done to animals in the name of scientific, military and commercial research.

About the Author, Peter Singer

Peter Singer's other books include Writings on an Ethical Life, Practical Ethics, and The Life You Can Save, among many others. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values.

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Editorials

Library Journal

``The modern animal rights movement may be dated to the 1975 publication of Animal Liberation by Australian philosopher Peter Singer,'' declared Newsweek of the first edition, and this ``bible'' for animal rights activists has just undergone a second edition. Singer continues his ``blistering indictment of so-called humane use of animals in scientific research'' ( LJ 12/1/75), describes the current (and still atrocious) state of animal testing, and brings up to date the activities of the animal rights movement, nascent at the time of the first edition's release. This is a necessary purchase for any animal rights collection. See also Heidi J. Welsh's Animal Testing and Consumer Products , reviewed in this issue, p. 98.--Ed.-- Judy Quinn, ``Library Journal''

Book Details

Published
October 5, 1995
Publisher
Pimlico
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780712674447

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