Animal Liberation Now

Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed By Peter Singer Few books maintain their relevance—and have remained continuously in print—nearly 50 years after they were first published. Animal Liberation, one of TIME magazine’s “All-TIME 100 Best Non-Fiction Books,” is one. Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of “speciesism,” our society’s systematic disregard of nonhuman animals, inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes toward animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them. In Animal Liberation Now, Singer exposes the chilling reality of today’s factory farms and product-testing procedures, destroying the spurious justifications behind them and showing just how woefully we have been misled. Now, for the first time since the book’s original publication, Singer returns to the major arguments and examples and brings us to the current moment. This edition, revised throughout, covers important reforms in the European Union and in various U.S. states—but also shows us the impact of the huge expansion of factory farming due to the exploding demand for animal-derived products in China. It also discusses the toll that meat consumption is taking on the environment and the profound risk factory farms pose for spreading new viruses potentially even worse than the one that causes COVID-19. Animal Liberation Now includes alternatives to using animals, which has become a profound environmental and social issue as well as a moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice, it’s essential reading for animal rights supporters and skeptics alike.