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Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influential. 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. A revised edition, titled Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed, was released on 23 May 2023.

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] book is a reminder that plain, well-sourced facts, starkly presented, often speak louder than philosophical arguments .

The indispensable foundational text for the movement, new and updated with the honesty and philosophical depth characteristic of all of Singer's work -- J. Singer also shows how meat consumption is harming the environment and spreading new viruses worse than COVID-19.Animal Liberation was included in TIME Magazine's list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923. 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). 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.

He holds the interests of all beings capable of suffering to be worthy of equal consideration and that giving lesser consideration to beings based on their species is no more justified than discrimination based on skin color. Other activists who claim that their attitudes to animals changed after reading the book include Peter Tatchell [7] and Matt Ball. Utilitarianism, Nussbaum argues, ignores adaptive preferences, elides the separateness of distinct persons, misidentifies valuable human/non-human emotions such as grief, and calculates according to "sum-rankings" rather than inviolable protection of intrinsic entitlements. Animal Liberation was included in TIME Magazine 's list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923.

It looked as if real changes were possible, and I let myself believe that this would be one of them. 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.

Singer allows that animal rights are not the same as human rights, writing in Animal Liberation that "there are obviously important differences between humans and other animals, and these differences must give rise to some differences in the rights that each have.He became well known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975 and has been a leading thinker and campaigner in the field of animal rights ever since. 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. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Much more importantly, though, Professor Singer’s book helped define and build the movement that is fundamentally shifting the way humans relate to our fellow animals and that will eventually end the barbaric treatment of billions of sentient individuals.