Peter Singer-Animal Liberation

oppression and exploitation wherever they occur, and in seeingthatthebasicmoralprincipleofequalconsiderationof interestsisnotarb ...

This book is an attempt to think through, carefully and consistently,thequestionofhowweoughttotreatnonhuman animals. In the proc ...

movements on behalf of American Indians and Spanish- speaking Americans. When a majority group—women—begantheircampaignsomethoug ...

Theaimofthisbookistoleadyoutomakethismentalswitch inyourattitudesandpracticestowardaverylargegroupof beings:membersofspeciesothe ...

piecesof slaughterednonhumans everyday findit hardto believethattheyaredoingwrong;andtheyalsofindithardto imaginewhatelsetheycou ...

Thehabitsofthoughtthatleadustodisregardtheinterestsof animals can be challenged, as they are challenged in the following pages. ...

ThebasicprinciplesofAnimalLiberationareverysimple.I havetriedtowriteabookthatisclearandeasytounderstand, requiringnoexpertiseofa ...

Chapter 1 All Animals Are Equal ... orwhytheethicalprincipleonwhichhumanequalityrests requires us to extend equal consideration ...

defend the case for women’s rights against the attack by Thomas Taylor. How should we reply? Onewayinwhichwemightreplyisbysaying ...

talk of their right to vote. There is no reason why either Women’s Liberation or Animal Liberation should get involved in such n ...

abilities, different amounts of benevolent feeling and sensitivity to the needs of others, different abilities to communicate ef ...

ofequality tothe factualequalityofthe differentraces or sexes,takenasawhole,ouroppositiontoracismandsexism doesnotprovideuswitha ...

Fortunatelythereisnoneedtopinthecaseforequalitytoone particular outcome of a scientific investigation. The appropriate response ...

writersgenerallycannotagreeonhowthisrequirementisbest formulated.^1 It is an implication of this principle of equality that our ...

withourselves...butwhateverbetheirdegreeoftalentitis no measureof theirrights. Because SirIsaacNewton was superiortoothersinunde ...

other,asabasicmoralprinciple;butnotmanyofthemhave recognized thatthis principleapplies to members of other species as well as to ...

interests of a being should be considered happento have chosen the wrong characteristic. By saying that we must consider the int ...

Inmisguidedattemptstorefutetheargumentsofthis book, some philosophers have gone to much trouble developing argumentsto show that ...

by favoring the interests of their own sex. Similarly, speciesistsallowtheinterestsoftheirownspeciestooverride thegreaterinteres ...

thatanimalsareincapableofsufferinginanywayatall;that theyare, in fact,unconscious automata, possessing neither thoughts nor feel ...