Animal Liberation Now

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In 1975, Animal Liberation started a worldwide movement when it revealed the abuse of animals in factory farms and laboratories. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice, it’s essential reading for animal rights supporters and skeptics alike.

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.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 was included in TIME Magazine 's list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Singer himself rejected the use of the theoretical framework of rights when it comes to human and nonhuman animals. It is widely considered within the animal liberation movement to be the founding philosophical statement of its ideas.Much more importantly, though, Professor Singer’s book helped define and build the movement that is fundamentally shifting the way humans relate to our fellow animals and that will eventually end the barbaric treatment of billions of sentient individuals.

It also discusses the toll that meat consumption is taking on the environment and the profound risk factory farms pose for spreading new viruses potentially even worse than the one that causes COVID-19. It demonstrated that these and other practices were the cause of appalling and unnecessary suffering and therefore morally indefensible. 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 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. 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.