Animal Liberation - Hardcover

This book describes the unjustified pain suffered by animals in scientific, military and commercial research and the inhuman process through which meat is provided to consumers who have been conditioned to ignore the realities of meat production. Peter Singer showed that meat production is not only ethically indefensible but shamefully wasteful, depriving the world's poor of the protein they need. In this revised edition Professor Singer addresses three crucial developments in the battle for all animal welfare: he discusses the evolution of the animal rights movement, including its violent aspects; he responds to the argument and discussion provoked by positions he took in the first edition and updates his account of what is now being done to animals in the laboratory and on the farm.

Peter Singer is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, Melbourne. He is a frequent contributor for The New York Review of Books and the author of the major article on Ethics in the current edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Professor Singer has taught at University College, Oxford; New York University; the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of California at Irvine. In addition to his academic activities, he is actively involved in the Animal Liberation movement, as President of Animal Liberation (Victoria) and Vice-President of the Australian and New Zealand Federation of Animal Societies.