Animal Liberation
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: Kevin Rose On Entrepreneurship, Zen Buddhism, And Being Vulnerable
Podcast: The Daily StoicHe's like the inventor of effective altruism; he wrote like Animal Liberation. Now, so he's like one of the first animal rights people, and then he came up with this idea, partly based on the Stoics, which he came up with his metaphor.
- Episode: Peter Singer Isn’t a Saint, But He’s Better Than Steve Levitt | People I (Mostly) Admire | Ep 90
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireI personally know at least a dozen people who became vegetarian after they read his book, Animal Liberation.
- Episode: Peter Singer Isn’t a Saint, But He’s Better Than Steve Levitt | People I (Mostly) Admire | Ep 90
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireI was recently rereading the latest edition of your book, Animal Liberation, which was from 2015, and in the preface, you note the fact that meat consumption in the US, which had been rising for decades, suddenly fell every year from 2008 to 2015.
- Episode: Peter Singer Isn’t a Saint, But He’s Better Than Steve Levitt | People I (Mostly) Admire | Ep 90
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireI probably know at least a dozen people who became vegetarian after they read his book, Animal Liberation, and the effective altruism movement is in large part the consequence of his early writings on the topic.
- Episode: Peter Singer Isn’t a Saint, But He’s Better Than Steve Levitt | People I (Mostly) Admire | Ep 90
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireAnd I was recently rereading the latest edition of your book, Animal Liberation, which was from 2015.
- Episode: Peter Singer Isn’t a Saint, But He’s Better Than Steve Levitt | People I (Mostly) Admire | Ep 90
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireThere are now significantly more animals in factory farms than there were when Animal Liberation was first published in 1975, and despite the fact that there's been some progress in some countries and certainly much greater awareness of the issues of factory farming and of speciesism, the suffering inflicted on animals from the point of view of how much suffering humans do inflict on animals, the world is a lot worse than it was in 1975.