A revised edition, titled Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed, was released on 23 May 2023.

Therefore, intelligence does not provide a basis for giving nonhuman animals any less consideration than such intellectually challenged humans.In the fifty years since, science has further vindicated Peter Singer's arguments about animal sentience, and the book has helped change the minds of millions. S. states, but on the flip side, Singer shows us the impact of the huge expansion of factory farming due to the exploding demand for animal products in China. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. By submitting this form, you are agreeing to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal info in accordance with our privacy policy as well as to receiving e-mails from us. The indispensable foundational text for the movement, new and updated with the honesty and philosophical depth characteristic of all of Singer’s work.

As you’d expect given the extent of animal abuse in our society, the content can be pretty hard-hitting, but it’s not bleak or pessimistic - when I came to the end, I didn’t feel depressed, but rather energised to fight to prevent humans’ mistreatment of other animals. In particular, he argues that while animals show lower intelligence than the average human, many severely intellectually challenged humans show equally diminished, if not lower, mental capacity and that some animals have displayed signs of intelligence (for example, primates learning elements of American sign language and other symbolic languages) sometimes on a par with that of human children. Other activists who claim that their attitudes to animals changed after reading the book include Peter Tatchell [7] and Matt Ball. He argues that animals' rights should be based on their capacity to feel pain more than on their intelligence.Singer also shows how meat consumption is harming the environment and spreading new viruses worse than COVID-19. This] book is a reminder that plain, well-sourced facts, starkly presented, often speak louder than philosophical arguments . Animal Liberation Now includes alternatives to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue.

Animal Liberation was included in TIME Magazine's list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923. Animal Liberation Now is written with the honesty and philosophical depth characteristic of all of Singer's work' J. The revised edition, Animal Liberation Now, covers important reforms and sheds light on the impact of factory farming in China. Widely recognized as the foundational text within the animal liberation movement, Peter Singer's Animal Liberation opened my eyes to the radical philosophy that all animals are worthy of equal consideration. To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose.Despite improvements in animal welfare in some regions - brought about in large part by this book - in many others the scale of their abuse has reached staggering new depths.