Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement [Paperback]

"The modern animal rights movement may be dated to the 1975 publication of Animal Liberation by Australian philosopher Peter Singer," declared Newsweek of the first edition, and this "bible" for animal rights activists has just undergone a second edition. Singer continues his "blistering indictment of so-called humane use of animals in scientific research" ( LJ 12/1/75), describes the current (and still atrocious) state of animal testing, and brings up to date the activities of the animal rights movement, nascent at the time of the first edition's release. This is a necessary purchase for any animal rights collection. See also Heidi J. Welsh's Animal Testing and Consumer Products , reviewed in this issue, p. 98.--Ed.
- Judy Quinn, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

"It galvanised a generation into action. Groups sprang up around the world, equipped with a new vocabulary, a new set of ethics and a new sense of mission...Singer's book is widely known as the bible of the animal liberation movement." Independent on Sunday "A reasoned plea for the humane treatment of animals that galvanised the animal-rights movement the way the Rachel Carson's Silent Spring drew activists to environmentalism." New York Times "Important and responsible...Everyone ought to read it." Richard Adams "Probably the single most influential document in the history of recent movements concerned with animal welfare" Guardian --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Peter Singer's other books include <em>Writings on an Ethical Life</em>, <em>Practical Ethics</em>, and <em>The Life You Can Save</em>, among many others. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values.