THE UPDATED CLASSIC OF THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, NOW WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY YUVAL NOAH HARARI
Few books maintain their relevance—and have remained continuously in print—nearly fifty years after they were first published. Animal Liberation, one of TIME’s “All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books” is one such book. Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of ‘speciesism’—our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals—inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them. In Animal Liberation Now, Singer exposes the chilling realities of today’s ‘factory farms’ and product-testing procedures, destroying the spurious justifications behind them and showing us just how woefully we have been misled.
Now, Singer returns to the major arguments and examples and brings us to the current moment. This edition, revised from top to bottom, covers important reforms in the European Union and in various U.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. Further, meat consumption is taking a toll on the environment, and factory farms pose a profound risk for spreading new viruses even worse than COVID-19.
Animal Liberation Now includes alternatives 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, it is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.
About the author
Peter Singer has been called the father (or grandfather?) of themodern animal rights movement, even though he doesn’t base his
philosophical views on rights, either for humans or for animals. In
2005 Time magazine named Singer one of the 100 most influential people
in the world, and the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute ranked him 3rd among
Global Thought Leaders for 2013. He is known especially for his work on
the ethics of our treatment of animals, for his controversial critique
of the sanctity of life doctrine in bioethics, and for his writings on
the obligations of the affluent to aid those living in extreme poverty. Singer first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975. In 2011, Time included Animal Liberation
on its “All-TIME” list of the 100 best nonfiction books published in
English. Singer has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than
fifty books. His works have appeared in more than thirty languages. Peter
Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the
University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. After teaching in
England, the United States, and Australia, he has, since 1999, been Ira
W. De Camp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human
Values at Princeton University. Since 2005 he has combined that position
with the position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne,
in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. In 2012 he was
made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the nation’s highest civic
honor.
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