Animal Liberation
Author: Peter Singer
ISBN-nr: 520054601
Category: Animal Rights Issues
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Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
| Amazon wrote: |
| Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past. |
| Cynomis wrote: |
| Where the modern animal "rights" movement began, in spite of the fact that Singer is a Bentham-style utilitarian who doesn't even believe rights exist. I think his ideas are potentially dangerous, and they do not support abolition of the use of animals at all. |
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Peter Singer
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| Biographical note: wrote: |
| Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne, and the University of Oxford. In 1968 he married Renata Diamond; they are still married, and have three daughters. He has taught at the University of Oxford, New York University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of California of Irvine, and La Trobe University. He is now Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director of the Institute of Ethics and Public Affairs, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, Melbourne. He speaks frequently on a range of ethical issues, especially those involving issues of life and death, developments in medicine and the biological sciences, the status of nonhuman animals, and environmental questions. Peter Singer first became well-known internationally as a result of his book Animal Liberation, sometimes described as "the Bible of Animal Liberation movement." 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 Kuhse), How Are We to Live?, and most recently Rethinking Life and Death. Books he has edited or co-edited include Test-Tube Babies, In Defense of Animals, Applied Ethics, Animal Rights and Human Obligations, Embryo Experimentation, A Companion to Ethics, The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity, and Ethics. He is the author of the major article on Ethics in the current edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and, with Helga Kuhse, co-editor of the journal Bioethics. Peter Singer's recreations include bushwalking, swimming, growing fruit and vegetables, and writing. |
| The Animal Liberation Movement, Peter Singer wrote: |
| Over the last few years, the public has gradually become aware of the existence of a new cause: animal liberation. Most people first heard of the movement through newspaper articles, often of the "what on earth will they come up with next?" variety. Then there were marches and demonstrations against factory farming, animal experimentation or the Canadian seal slaughter; all brought to an audience of millions by the TV cameras. Finally there have been the illegal acts: slogans daubed on fur shops, laboratories broken into and animals rescued. What are the ideas behind the animal liberation movement, and where is it heading? In this essay I shall try to answer these questions. |
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