Singer allows that animal rights are not the same as human rights, writing in Animal Liberation that "there are obviously important differences between humans and other animals, and these differences must give rise to some differences in the rights that each have. It looked as if real changes were possible, and I let myself believe that this would be one of them. Animal Liberation was included in TIME Magazine's list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923. Much more importantly, though, Professor Singer’s book helped define and build the movement that is fundamentally shifting the way humans relate to our fellow animals and that will eventually end the barbaric treatment of billions of sentient individuals. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice, it is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.

It is widely considered within the animal liberation movement to be the founding philosophical statement of its ideas. 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.In addition, Martha Nussbaum has argued that the capability approach provides a more adequate foundation of justice than Utilitarianism can supply. Animal Liberation Now includes alternatives to using animals, which has become a profound environmental and social issue as well as a moral issue. This revised edition, of which about two-thirds is entirely new, documents these and other developments, such as the impact of meat consumption on climate and the spread of dangerous new viruses. A revised edition, titled Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed, was released on 23 May 2023.

They derive their radical moral conclusions from a vacuous utilitarianism that counts the pain and pleasure of all living things as equally significant and that ignores just about everything that has been said in our philosophical tradition about the real distinction between persons and animals.He holds the interests of all beings capable of suffering to be worthy of equal consideration and that giving lesser consideration to beings based on their species is no more justified than discrimination based on skin color. Animal Liberation was included in TIME Magazine 's list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923. He is professor of bioethics at Princeton University and has published numerous books, including The Life You Can Save (2009) , The Most Good You Can Do (2015) and Ethics in the Real World (2016).