'An extraordinary book which has had extraordinary effects. . . widely known as the bible of the animal liberation movement' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and
educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of
Oxford. He has taught at the University of Oxford, New York
University, University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of
California at Irvine, and the La Trobe University. He is now a
professor of Philosophy and deputy Director of the Centre for Human
Bioethics at Monash University, Melbourne. He was the founding
President of Animal Liberation (Victoria) and is now the President
of the Australian and New Zealand Federation of Animal Societies, a
peak body for animal welfare and animal rights organisations in
Australia and New Zealand. He is the co-founder and President of
The Great Ape Project, an international effort to obtain basic
rights for chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans.
In 1994 Peter Singer was a candidate for the Australian Greens at a
by-election for the House of Representatives, and gained 29% of the
vote, an Australian record for the Greens.
Peter Singer first became well known internationally after the
publication of Animal Liberation. His other books include Democracy
and Disobedience; Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; Marx;
Hegel; Animal Factories (with Jim Mason); The Reproduction
Revolution (with Deane Wells); Should the Baby Live? (with Helga
Kushe); How are We to Live?; and Rethinking Life and Death.
"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*
"Probably the single most influential document in the history of
recent movements concerned with animal welfare"
*Guardian*
"In my mind, it is one the most important books of the last 100
years. It expands our moral horizons beyond our own species and is
thereby a major evolution in ethics"
*Ecologist*
"One of the most important books of the past 100 years… a major
evolution in ethics"
*The Week*
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