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“Paul McCartney once said that if slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. This book continues Peter Singer's important, urgent project of turning these walls, one by one, to glass. The essays alert us to the holocaust that continues in farms and laboratories; a holocaust that most people ignore - not because they are bad people, but, perhaps, because the horror of what we do to animals is too big to contemplate. … The wonderful essays in this book remind us that any form of humanism must respect all sentient beings, and that a culture that can create workers who can bear listening to the screams of the "animals" they kill … and that can also create people who are prepared to look the other way and enjoy the spoils of the whole endeavour - is a culture that is not only cruel and deluded, but well primed for the next human holocaust.” The Independent on Sunday
"Peter Singer’s writing changed my life. I have waited for this book for a long time, a quarter of a century in fact. What an exquisite collection of fine writers with compelling philosophies, philosophies that translate into positive ways to change society and one’s own daily life for the better.” Ingrid Newkirk, President, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
“A survey of the new wave of philosophy, science, and action in the cause of animals. The theoretical essays give a masterly overview of the field, while the essays on animal-rights activism are engaging and full of good sense.” J. M. Coetzee, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2003
“Take your fork out of that animal on your plate, and sit down in a comfortable chair and read this book instead. Essential reading for anyone who cares deeply about the lives of animals.” Jeffrey Masson, author of The Pig Who Sang to the Moon
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In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave brings together the best current ethical thinking about animals. Edited by Peter Singer, who made "speciesism" an international issue in 1975 when he published Animal Liberation, this new book presents the state of the animal movement that his classic work helped to inspire.
Long hailed as a brilliant and controversial philosopher, Singer has assembled incisive new articles by philosophers and by activists. In Defense of Animals is sure to inform and inspire all who want to understand, or contribute to, the unfolding moral revolution in the way we treat animals.
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New York, Whole Foods, Peter Singer, John Mackey, European Union, Karen Dawn, Paola Cavalieri, United States, Brave New Farm, San Francisco, American Museum of Natural History, Animal Welfare Act, Cambridge University Press, Dale Jamieson, Paul Waldau, Lauren Ornelas, Marian Stamp Dawkins, Martin Balluch, Oxford University Press, The Animal Debate, Dale Peterson, Gaverick Matheny, Scientific Veterinary Committee, Central Africa, European Commission New!
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There is broad consensus within both religious and secular ethics that an ethical life respects virtues like fairness, justice, and benevolence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Whole Foods, Peter Singer, John Mackey, European Union, Karen Dawn, Paola Cavalieri, United States, Brave New Farm, San Francisco, American Museum of Natural History, Animal Welfare Act, Cambridge University Press, Dale Jamieson, Paul Waldau, Lauren Ornelas, Marian Stamp Dawkins, Martin Balluch, Oxford University Press, The Animal Debate, Dale Peterson, Gaverick Matheny, Scientific Veterinary Committee, Central Africa, European Commission New!
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- Animal Liberation by Peter Singer on 12 pages
- Practical Ethics by Peter Singer on 5 pages
- Animals, Men and Morals: An Inquiry Into The Maltreatment of Non-humans by Stanley Godlovitch on 4 pages
- Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics by Peter Singer in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 68
- The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan on page 25, page 67, and Back Matter
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- Animal Liberation by Peter Singer on 6 pages
- Babies and Beasts: THE ARGUMENT FROM MARGINAL CASES by Daniel A. Dombrowski on 4 pages
- Preserving Wildlife: An International Perspective (Flashpoints (Amherst, N.Y.).) by Mark A. Michael on page 43, page 46, and page 121
- The Scalpel and the Butterfly:The War Between Animal Research and Animal Protection by Deborah Rudacille on page 115, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Souls Like Ourselves, Inspired Thoughts for Personal and Planetary Advancement by Andrea Gillan Wiebers M.S.W. on page 159, and page 171
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