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Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals is a 1975 book by Australian philosopher Peter Singer. In addition, Martha Nussbaum has argued that the capability approach provides a more adequate foundation of justice than Utilitarianism can supply. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influential. Few books maintain their relevance—and have remained continuously in print—nearly 50 years after they were first published.

They derive their radical moral conclusions from a vacuous utilitarianism that counts the pain and pleasure of all living things as equally significant and that ignores just about everything that has been said in our philosophical tradition about the real distinction between persons and animals.This revised edition, of which about two-thirds is entirely new, documents these and other developments, such as the impact of meat consumption on climate and the spread of dangerous new viruses.

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. Gareth Walsh, " Father of animal activism backs monkey testing", The Sunday Times, November 26, 2006. Therefore, intelligence does not provide a basis for giving nonhuman animals any less consideration than such intellectually challenged humans. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In 1975, Animal Liberation started a worldwide movement when it revealed the abuse of animals in factory farms and laboratories.

As you’d expect given the extent of animal abuse in our society, the content can be pretty hard-hitting, but it’s not bleak or pessimistic - when I came to the end, I didn’t feel depressed, but rather energised to fight to prevent humans’ mistreatment of other animals. The indispensable foundational text for the movement, new and updated with the honesty and philosophical depth characteristic of all of Singer’s work.

The indispensable foundational text for the movement, new and updated with the honesty and philosophical depth characteristic of all of Singer's work -- J. It demonstrated that these and other practices were the cause of appalling and unnecessary suffering and therefore morally indefensible. It looked as if real changes were possible, and I let myself believe that this would be one of them. The revised edition, Animal Liberation Now, covers important reforms and sheds light on the impact of factory farming in China.Activist Ingrid Newkirk wrote of Animal Liberation, "It forever changed the conversation about our treatment of animals. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice, it is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.

In particular, he argues that while animals show lower intelligence than the average human, many severely intellectually challenged humans show equally diminished, if not lower, mental capacity and that some animals have displayed signs of intelligence (for example, primates learning elements of American sign language and other symbolic languages) sometimes on a par with that of human children.

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. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice, it’s essential reading for animal rights supporters and skeptics alike. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password.