Animal Liberation Now

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It’s an extremely informative and accessible reminder of how far we’ve progressed in the last 50 years when it comes to respecting animals’ rights, and how far we have yet to go. Animal Liberation was included in TIME Magazine's list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923.

Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).Therefore, intelligence does not provide a basis for giving nonhuman animals any less consideration than such intellectually challenged humans. Activist Ingrid Newkirk wrote of Animal Liberation, "It forever changed the conversation about our treatment of animals. 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: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals is a 1975 book by Australian philosopher Peter Singer.

In 1975, Animal Liberation started a worldwide movement when it revealed the abuse of animals in factory farms and laboratories. 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. 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. S. states—but also shows us the impact of the huge expansion of factory farming due to the exploding demand for animal-derived products in China. In Animal Liberation Now, Singer exposes the chilling reality of today’s factory farms and product-testing procedures, destroying the spurious justifications behind them and showing just how woefully we have been misled.

The indispensable foundational text for the movement, new and updated with the honesty and philosophical depth characteristic of all of Singer's work -- J.