Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

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How should we treat non-human animals? In this immensely powerful and

influential book (now with a new introduction by Sapiens author Yuval Noah

Harari), the renowned moral philosopher Peter Singer addresses this simple

question with trenchant, dispassionate reasoning. Accompanied by the

disturbing evidence of factory farms and laboratories, his answers

triggered the birth of the animal rights movement. ''An extraordinary book

which has had extraordinary effects… Widely known as the bible of the

animal liberation movement'' Independent on Sunday In the decades since this

landmark classic first appeared, some public attitudes to animals may have

changed but our continued abuse of animals in factory farms and as tools

for research shows that the underlying ideas Singer exposes as ethically

indefensible are still dominating the way we treat animals. As Yuval

Harari’s brilliantly argued introduction makes clear, this book is as

relevant now as the day it was written.