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The classic which is considered to be the beginning of animal liberation.
Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our
Treatment of Animals is a 1975 book by Australian philosopher Peter
Singer. It is widely considered within the animal liberation movement to
be the founding philosophical statement of its ideas. Singer himself
rejected the use of the theoretical framework of rights when it comes to
human and nonhuman animals. Following Jeremy Bentham, Singer argued that
the interests of animals should be considered because of their ability
to experience suffering and that the idea of rights was not necessary in
order to consider them. He popularized the term “speciesism” in the
book, which had been coined by Richard D. Ryder to describe the
exploitative treatment of animals …
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The Book That Started A Revolution. 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 …
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First published in 1975, Animal Liberation was a philosophical bombshell. It forever changed the conversation about our treatment of animals. It made people—myself included–change what we ate, what we wore, and how we perceived animals… (Ingrid Newkirk, PETA) PETA