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  <title><![CDATA[Animal Liberation]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Book That Started A Revolution&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;P&gt;Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past. &lt;P&gt;In this newly revised and expanded edition, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's &quot;factory forms&quot; and product-testing procedures -- offering sound, humane solutions to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency and justice, &lt;I&gt;Animal Liberation&lt;/I&gt; is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.&lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the &quot;bible&quot; of the animal rights movement because I wanted to get some clue as to what is being thought. I should consider all views in order to change, consolidate or move on my own position.<br/><br/>On a very simple analysis, if you are guilty about existing and using the plane...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4557631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Animal Liberation</em> is credited with launching the animal rights movement in the industrialized world when it was first published in 1975 by the then relatively unknown,  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Peter Singer" title="Peter Singer">Peter Singer</a> ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer]).  You can blame all of the illogical stupidity of [http://www.peta.org] ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2604146">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is very well written, and very well argued, but unfortunately it's let down a little by the fact that it's now rather dated. The three stars are based on a judgement of how relevant and effective the book was as of the date I read it, not on how influential it has been in the past. The phi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58328354">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In some ways part of the great American literary genre of Nature Writing, Peter Singer's ANIMAL LIBERATION is thought to be the text that launched the Animal Rights Movement.  It is a philosophical treatise having to do with rights in the abstract, human empathy, cruelty, right and wrong, and above ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74561226">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Primarily a work of philosophy, Animal Liberation discusses human attitudes toward nonhumans (that is, animals) through examining our institutional and habitual treatment of them and uses to which we put them.  This project obviously entails a discussion of animals as food and, more specifically, of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42462581">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I, like most people, prefer to mentally block out graphic images of cows and chickens, dangling upside-down, assembly-line style, while eating meat.  I do consider myself a hypocrite, however, for not knowing the origins of that nicely organized package of meat I just bought at the grocery store.  W...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78271085">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Singer is the sort of person who gives the field of philosophy a bad name. His writing does not reveal any insights (except to his own personal biases) nor does it indicate any interest in critical thought. One of the effects of this book is to turn people away from the examination of moral status a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45608692">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the classic that launched the modern animal rights movement. some of it is very disturbing, but  it's so well researched and so credible, especially now that the author has become so respected far outside just animal rights supporters, that it is (unfortunately still) one of the very best ways to be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64208646">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an animal rights classic, and although there are so many animal rights books now, this is still worth a read. It's been a very infuential book to many and hasn't lost much of its impact over time. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.&quot;<br/><br/>-G.K....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63758008">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 11 09:53:59 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Peter when it comes to Animal Rights, but I am pretty damn sure I don't entirely agree with his perspective.  That said, it's an animal rights classic and Singer does have a ton to offer, whether he proves to be a welfarist or not.  If you are already interested in, or are interested in learning mor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43972160">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not all the way through it yet, but the basic argument of the book seems to be that since non-human animals can feel pain and suffer (as well as experience happiness), and since these are the qualities that we generally measure when evaluating whether or not an action is ethical, we have an ethi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62213192">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an incredibly eye-opening book and the most widely read on this subject. It starts with the <em>a priori</em> assumption that all beings deserve equal consideration, from which follows the axiom of Utilitarianism that the interest of any one individual is of no more importance than the interest of an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36561688">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although Singer wrote <em>Animal Liberation</em> over twenty years ago, its message against speciesism is still relevant.  He uses reason and logic to argue against our deeply-entrenched relationship to animals.  He pulls down the veil and shows that our (ab)use of animals is not natural, not necessary, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11344876">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Singer's argument is highly compelling but his philosophy strikes me as sloppy and simplistic.  His core premise - that there exists a moral imperative to regard all beings, regardless of species, with equal consideration - strikes me as problematic; his hearkening to basic Benthamite utilitarianism...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7917211">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't eaten meat in 12 years and had never read this book.  I figured it was about time; I mean, after all it is credited for starting so many people down the animal rights path.  This book is interesting.  I like that Peter Singer presents his ideas in a pretty unbiased way.  He is passionate a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45657931">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On some of Peter Singer's books there is a blurb from the New York Times that says something to the effect of &quot;Peter Singer is the most influential philosopher alive.&quot; The vast majority of that influence comes from this very book, which is as influential as any book on the topic of animal ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31506254">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[if a measure of a book's greatness is its effectiveness or its ability to impact one's life, then this book deserves 10 stars! I grew up eating meat and although I was already considering giving up meat when I picked this book up, it was this book that solidified my decision. Peter Singer uses very ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1285005">more...</a>]]></body>
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