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In an essay entitled "Animal Liberation: A Personal View", Singer describes the personal background that led to his adoption of the views he sets out in Animal Liberation. 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.
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. He is professor of bioethics at Princeton University and has published numerous books, including The Life You Can Save (2009) , The Most Good You Can Do (2015) and Ethics in the Real World (2016). 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. 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.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. It looked as if real changes were possible, and I let myself believe that this would be one of them.
In a lengthy debate in Slate, published in 2001, Richard Posner wrote, among other things, that Singer failed to see the "radicalism of the ethical vision that powers [his] view on animals, an ethical vision that finds greater value in a healthy pig than in a profoundly intellectually challenged child, that commands inflicting a lesser pain on a human being to avert a greater pain to a dog, and that, provided only that a chimpanzee has 1 percent of the mental ability of a normal human being, would require the sacrifice of the human being to save 101 chimpanzees. The book has also received a wide range of philosophical challenges to his formulation of animal rights. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose.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. In addition, Martha Nussbaum has argued that the capability approach provides a more adequate foundation of justice than Utilitarianism can supply. 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.
We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Animal Liberation was included in TIME Magazine 's list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923.Singer himself rejected the use of the theoretical framework of rights when it comes to human and nonhuman animals. Few books maintain their relevance—and have remained continuously in print—nearly 50 years after they were first published. This edition, revised from top to bottom, covers important reforms in the European Union, and now in various U.
It refines its arguments in light of new evidence, equips the reader with fresh tools and advice, and shows us all the road ahead.In the fifty years since, science has further vindicated Peter Singer's arguments about animal sentience, and the book has helped change the minds of millions.