In Defense of Animals

By Peter Singer

Book Overview

Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement.
Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal rights into an international concern when he first published In Defence of Animals and Animal Liberation over thirty years ago
Essays explore new ways of measuring animal suffering, reassess the question of personhood, and draw highlight tales of effective advocacy
Lays out "Ten Tips for Activists," taking the reader beyond ethical theory and into the day-to-day campaigns for animal rights

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631143270
• ISBN13: 9780631143277
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.

Customer Reviews

In the future

I think Peter Singer is right in the battle to protect the animals. He shows in the book why is necessary the men change his mind .

Contents:

Articles and essays from different people like philosophers, biologists, activists and lobbyists. Here you learn first hand accounts of the stories that have made headlines around the world...the plight of the Silver Spring laboratory monkeys, the freeing of the Island of the Dragon dolphins, the successful campaigns against the Draize and LD50 tests, extinctions of species, and confinement of animals in farm factories and zoos.