Animal Liberation - Hardcover

Singer, Peter

 
9780940322004: Animal Liberation

Synopsis

In his introduction, Peter Singer writes: "This book is about the tyranny of human over non-human animals. This tyranny has caused and today is still causing an amount of pain and suffering that can only be compared with that which resulted from centuries of tyranny by white humans over black humans." Now you may read the 2nd Edition of the 1975 classic that inspired a world-wide movement.

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Review

"It galvanised a generation into action. Groups sprang up around the world, equipped with a new vocabulary, a new set of ethics and a new sense of mission...Singer's book is widely known as the bible of the animal liberation movement." ( Independent on Sunday)

"A reasoned plea for the humane treatment of animals that galvanised the animal-rights movement the way the Rachel Carson's Silent Spring drew activists to environmentalism." ( New York Times)

"Important and responsible...Everyone ought to read it." ( Richard Adams)

"Probably the single most influential document in the history of recent movements concerned with animal welfare" ( Guardian)

From the Publisher

'An extraordinary book which has had extraordinary effects. . . widely known as the bible of the animal liberation movement' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

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