About the Author

Peter Singer has been called the most influential philosopher alive. 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). He became well known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975 and has been a leading thinker and campaigner in the field of animal rights ever since. Animal Liberation was included in TIME Magazine's list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published since 1923. In 2012 Singer was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, his country's highest civilian honour, and in 2021 he was awarded the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture.

Reviews

Probably the single most influential document in the history of ... animal welfare
*Guardian*

If I have to pick the book that had the most impact on me, I would say Peter Singer's Animal Liberation, since I instantly became a vegetarian after reading it
*Jane Goodall*

An extraordinary book which has had extraordinary effects ... It galvanised a generation into action
*Independent on Sunday*

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. Singer's latest, Animal Liberation Now, will motivate a new generation of readers who are resolutely committed to creating a just society for all
*Joaquin Phoenix*

The indispensable foundational text for the movement, new and updated with the honesty and philosophical depth characteristic of all of Singer's work
*J. M. Coetzee*

Raises ethical questions that every human being should take to heart
*Yuval Noah Harari*

Peter Singer may be the most moral person on the planet. If his ruthlessly consistent altruism makes the rest of us shuffle our feet in discomfort, or even noisily disrupt his lectures, that's all the more reason to read this book
*Richard Dawkins*

Animal Liberation Now … is rightly a classic: not merely a book but … a catalyst to a movement ... [it] remains radical
*Times Literary Supplement*

There's a reason Animal Liberation hasn't gone out of print since the Seventies - [Singer] makes for a persuasive argument, and one that's now better suited to our times
*Independent*

For those with an interest in culture, ethics and animals ... Animal Liberation Now is essential reading
*The Conversation*

One the most important books of the last 100 years. It expands our moral horizons beyond our own species
*Ecologist*

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
*The New York Times*

[This] book is a reminder that plain, well-sourced facts, starkly presented, often speak louder than philosophical arguments ... Animal Liberation and Animal Liberation Now owe their undeniable power to the same basic source: to know the facts is to see at once that change is needed
*Nature*