Animal Liberation Now Quotes

“Either the minds of animals are not like ours, in which case the experiments are unlikely to benefit us and there is less justification for funding and carrying them out; or else the animals do have minds like ours, in which case we ought not to perform on the animal an experiment that would be considered outrageous if performed on one of us.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed

“The question is not”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation Now

“Hence the fate of farm animals is not an ethical side issue. It concerns the majority of the earth’s large creatures: tens of billions of sentient beings”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation Now

“Any such common denominator that is possessed by all humans will not be possessed only by humans.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed

“When you confine animals so that they cannot find food themselves, you have to produce food for them, and in every case, you have to put more food into the animals than you will get out of them.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed

“If we are continuing to eat chicken produced by breeding birds who are in pain because their legs cannot support their fast-growing bodies, or meat from pigs kept confined indoors all their lives, it is hypocritical of us to object to eating dogs.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed

“Unfortunately, brilliance in science is no guarantee of a sound grasp of ethics.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation Now

“the misery and pain inflicted on animals that I described in the original 1975 edition of this book has not ceased.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation Now

“Suomi had, over three decades and with funding from the NIH, deprived hundreds of infant monkeys of contact with their mothers, isolated them in small metal cages, and deliberately caused them to suffer anxiety, depression, diarrhea, hair loss, and to engage in forms of self-mutilation such as biting themselves and pulling out their own hair—social, emotional, and physical harm that lasted through their lives.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed