A case for animal equality.
Today, as never before, we are subjecting animals to scientific experimentation, wearing furs and leather goods, and eating commercially produced meats - casually accepting slaughter as a necessary way of life, and carefully ignoring the inhumanity and illogic of our behavior. There are extensive federally financed programs in which animals are poisoned, starved and tortured, although many authorities now say the experiments are not worth doing and yield results not worth publishing. There are hundreds of millions of animals living in spaces so cramped that they barely experience their bodies, but these are the livestock that bring premium prices at the market, and so the practice continues.
Editorial Reviews
"Singer describes this cruelty we impose upon other animals with logic and restraint. He shows how, whenever we start to become aware of our practices, we marshal a host of rationalizations to defend them....Reading Animal Liberation is a powerful experience." --Psychology Today
"Animal Liberation is the greatest book ever written on animal experimentation. For the first time in history, Prof. Singer peers behind the scenes and exposes the collaboration between politicians and those special interest groups who speak for the users and suppliers of laboratory animals. And for the first time, Prof. Singer has dared to reveal the creutly of intensive farming in thsi country--something no one else has ever had the guts to do." --Eleanor Seiling, President, United Action for Animals
About the Author
Peter Singer is currently Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He is the author or editor of more than forty books, including Animal Liberation (1975), Rethinking Life and Death (1996) and, most recently, The Life You Can Save (2009). In 2005, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
