Peter Singer-Animal Liberation

Whenwe add this intellectual revolution to the growth of humanitarianfeelingthatprecededit,wemightthinkthatall willnowbewell.Yet ...

Theexcuses used vary, and some of them show a certain ingenuity.Itisworthwhileexaminingspecimensofthemain types, for they are st ...

in his autobiography Seventy Years Amongst Savages (an accountofhislifeinEngland)recordsaconversationhehad when he was a master ...

beinga“reasonablecreature”isthatonecanfindareasonfor whatever one wants to do.^44 Itisalsopossibleforadeepthinkertoavoidconfront ...

contrasted the “revoltingly crude” attitudes to animals prevalentinWesternphilosophy andreligion withthose of BuddhistsandHindus ...

painless.WhenSchopenhauerandBenthamwrote,slaughter wasanevenmorehorrificaffairthanitistoday.Theanimals were forced to cover long ...

accusation that Darwin’s ideas undermined the dignity of man, T. H. Huxley, Darwin’s greatest champion, said: No-oneismorestrong ...

mere change in our knowledge of ourselves and of other animals. ...

Chapter 6 Speciesism Today ... defenses, rationalizations, and objections to Animal Liberationand the progress made in overcomin ...

thoughtaboutanimalscanwebuildasolidfoundationforthe abolition of this exploitation. Ourattitudes to animals begin to form when w ...

Three blind mice. See how they run. They all ran after the farmer’s wife. She cut off their tails with a carving knife. Did you ...

thingtodo,butswitchtheirtails,eatgrassandmoo.”^1 British books, like The Farm in the best-selling Ladybird series, conveythesame ...

thattheywillnotgrowupbigandstrongwithoutmeat.One hopes thatas knowledgeofnutrition spreads moreparents willrealizethatonthisissu ...

species;butdevelopmentsinfarmingtechniquesthatdeprive millions of animals of freedom of movement go unreported. Before the recen ...

whoareawarethatthetraditionalfamilyfarmhasbeentaken over by big businessinterests, and that some questionable experimentsgooninl ...

ofcruelty.Oneishistorical.Whenfirstfounded,theRSPCA and ASPCAwere radical groups, far ahead of the public opinionoftheirtimes,an ...

emphasize safe activities like collecting stray dogs and prosecuting individual acts of wanton cruelty, instead of broad campaig ...

Among the factors that make itdifficult to arouse public concernaboutanimalsperhapsthehardesttoovercomeisthe assumption that “hu ...

totestthetoxicityofhouseholdproducts, therewouldbea national uproar. The use of millions of animals for this purpose should caus ...

politicalcausetheythoughtmosturgent.Iwouldnotquestion thesincerityofvegetarianswhotakelittleinterestinAnimal Liberation because ...