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Animal Liberation by: Peter Singer |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 179.3 EAN: 9780380713332 ISBN: 0380713330 Label: Avon Books (P) Manufacturer: Avon Books (P) Publication Date: 1991-04 Publisher: Avon Books (P) Studio: Avon Books (P) Sales Rank: 673697 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: From the Publisher: 'An extraordinary book which has had extraordinary effects. . . widely known as the bible of the animal liberation movement' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY About the Author: Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has taught at the University of Oxford, New York University, University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of California at Irvine, and the La Trobe University. He is now a professor of Philosophy and deputy Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, Melbourne. He was the founding President of Animal Liberation (Victoria) and is now the President of the Australian and New Zealand Federation of Animal Societies, a peak body for animal welfare and animal rights organisations in Australia and New Zealand. He is the co-founder and President of The Great Ape Project, an international effort to obtain basic rights for chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans. In 1994 Peter Singer was a candidate for the Australian Greens at a by-election for the House of Representatives, and gained 29% of the vote, an Australian record for the Greens. Peter Singer first became well known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation. His other books include Democracy and Disobedience; Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; Marx; Hegel; Animal Factories (with Jim Mason); The Reproduction Revolution (with Deane Wells); Should the Baby Live? (with Helga Kushe); How are We to Live?; and Rethinking Life and Death. Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Animal Liberation - a phenomenal book!Quite simply this book changed my life. I have never read anything like it. Exceptional, important, morally bang on, inspirational - as they say, the Bible of the movement. Buy it! And buy one for all your friends and family while you're at it too. You won't look back. Rating: - All politicians AND vets in pharmaceutical and military industry should read this...Veterany students and politicians should read this book before they start torturing animals or make any political statement. The British Prime Minister -while allowing military tests on primates and other experiments at American funded research centres- has not read this book. The Bishops of Canterbury and Westminster have not read this book - they allow military torture of primates. The Oxford professors have not read this book - they have no moral conscience, it's not in their "package". Bush has not read this book - if he ever read a book. If they had read this book ... they would have been much better humans. Now they are only primitive greedy human beings without any moral conscience. How do you expect any of them to respect human ... Read More: Rating: - Most important and powerful book I've ever read.It makes people feel bad for the disgraceful animals without appealing or look so emotional. He uses only reasons and the most powerful arguments I´ve seen somebody defending. I've already became a vegetarian before reading it, but the book gave me the perfect reasons to keep on this diet for the rest of my life. Singer is a guy blessed with intelligence and power of convinciment. Even a slaughterhouse owner should agree with 90% which is in the book. Some try to dismiss Singer as a nazi, who would defend testing in disabled people or orphan babies than in pigs or dogs. Those people or have bad intentions or don´t have a clue, cause what Singer does is exactly the other way, claiming the animals should have ... Read More: Rating: - One of the toughest-to-argue with books I've ever readI read this book partly out of curiosity and partly out of a wish to confront a position that I found challenging to my own hazy sense of ethics. Specifically, I love cooking but was beginning to wonder if I didn't eat more meat than was really a good idea. The fundamental insight I got from Singer's book is that the human tendency to elevate the interests of our species over those of other species is an entirely irrational prejudice, with no authority other than tradition. This is not to say that the interests of other species are always to be preferred to our own - that would also be illogical. But they must be taken into consideration, if our ethics are to have any rationality whatsoever. As far as I'm concerned, this ... Read More: Rating: - Everybody should read this bookThis book shows how we contribute to cruelty toward animals if we continue eating meat from industrial production, don't boycott cosmetics that test on animals and live in ignorance. Peter Singer beat everybody with his ethical arguments. I became vegetarian after reading it. |
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