Book · 1976 · Vegetarianism
Animal Liberation
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I 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.
Steve Levitt · People I (Mostly) Admire · Jan 2023 Listen at 0:52 What they say about it
- People becoming vegetarian“became vegetarian after they read his book”4
- Rereading the latest edition“rereading the latest edition of your book”4
- First published in 1975“first published in 1975”4
- Founding text for animal rights“founding text for what became the animal rights movement”3
The best things said about it
The following is a conversation with Peter Singer professor of bioethics at Bristol University best known for his 1975 book Animal Liberation that makes an ethical case against eating meat.
Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2020 Animal Liberation which was the name of his book which was kind of text you know founding text for what became the animal rights movement.
William MacAskill The Joe Rogan Experience · Mar 2017 And the main thing that got me thinking about it was Peter singers Burke Animal Liberation Peter singer is probably the most important philosopher in my life.
Because I read Peter Singer's book Animal Liberation and thought oh good grief you shouldn't just be being kind to animals within the context of using them.
Peter singer's work animal Liberation which I still think from an ethical perspective I I think that we're going to look back on what we do now with much of animal farming and think of it as abhorent.
Chris Williamson Modern Wisdom · Nov 2023 Where and when it comes up
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Why people recommend it
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer is a foundational philosophy text that galvanized the modern animal rights movement by arguing against the moral permissibility of animal exploitation. Steve Levitt discussed the book on People I (Mostly) Admire, noting that he personally knows at least a dozen people who became vegetarian after reading it and highlighting its role in inspiring the effective altruism movement. Diana Fleischman mentioned the book on Modern Wisdom, asserting that listeners cannot examine Singer's work on animal rights philosophy without being convinced by the case against eating meat. Chris Williamson discussed Singer's work on Modern Wisdom while reflecting on the ethics of animal farming, predicting future generations will view current practices with abhorrence. Kevin Rose referenced the book on The Daily Stoic when discussing Singer as a pioneer of both animal rights and effective altruism, while Steve Levitt returned to the text in a later episode to analyze U.S. meat consumption statistics from the author's 2015 edition preface.
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Steve Levitt I probably know at least a dozen people who became vegetarian after they read his book, Animal Liberation,… 9
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“I personally 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”
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“I personally know at least a dozen people who became vegetarian after they read his book, Animal Liberation.”
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“and I 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.”
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“I 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.”
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“I probably know at least a dozen people who became vegetarian after they read his book animal Liberation”
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“I 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.”
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“And I was recently rereading the latest edition of your book animal Liberation which was from 2015.”
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“And I was recently rereading the latest edition of your book, Animal Liberation, which was from 2015.”
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“There 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”
Diana Fleischman i i challenge anyone to listen to alex talk and synthesize stuff like peter singer's work and and everybody… 1
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“i i challenge anyone to listen to alex talk and synthesize stuff like peter singer's work and and everybody else that's in this space of like animal rights philosophy i suppose and not be convinced by the case not to eat meat”
Lex Fridman the following is a conversation with Peter Singer professor of bioethics at Bristol University best known f… 2
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“the following is a conversation with Peter Singer professor of bioethics at Bristol University best known for his 1975 book Animal Liberation that makes an ethical case against eating meat”
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“so as far as we know we cannot communicate with animals to a natural language but we would be able to communicate with robots so I'm returning just of a small parallel between perhaps animals in the future of AI if we do create nature a system or as we approach creating that age a system what kind of questions”
Peter Singer but the fact that there's been relatively little progress in terms of treating animals better over the 48 y… 2
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“but the fact that there's been relatively little progress in terms of treating animals better over the 48 years since the first version of animal Liberation appeared does make me concerned”
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“there are now significantly more animals in factory farms than there were when animal Liberation was first published in 1975”
Rich Roll you wrote Animal Liberation in 1975 I want to hear how that came into being but in in in looking back upon… 2
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“and in the in the context of the reduction of suffering this is this is kind of the you know the the landscape from which you're thinking on animal Liberation emanates and I want to get to that but I kind of want to put that aside for now”
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“you wrote Animal Liberation in 1975 I want to hear how that came into being but in in in looking back upon you know the many years since that book came out it must be quite an awesome thing”
Alex O’Connor and the main thing that got me thinking about it was Peter singers Burke Animal Liberation Peter singer is… 1
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“and the main thing that got me thinking about it was Peter singers Burke Animal Liberation Peter singer is probably the most important philosopher in my life”
Chris Williamson Peter singer's work animal Liberation which I still think from an ethical perspective I I think that we're… 1
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“Peter singer's work animal Liberation which I still think from an ethical perspective I I think that we're going to look back on what we do now with much of animal farming and think of it as abhorent”
Ingrid Newkirk because I read Peter singers book Animal Liberation and thought oh good grief you shouldn't just be being k… 1
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“because I read Peter singers book Animal Liberation and thought oh good grief you shouldn't just be being kind to animals within the context of using them”
Joe Rogan ever read Peter Singer you know him no he wrote Animal Liberation which sort of started the whole animal ri… 1
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“ever read Peter Singer you know him no he wrote Animal Liberation which sort of started the whole animal rights frenzy in the 70s whenever it was really interesting philosopher teaches at Princeton”
Kevin Rose He's like the inventor of effective altruism; he wrote like Animal Liberation. Now, so he's like one of the… 1
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“He'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.”
Tyler Cowen there is a new and very much revised edition of Peter's classic book animal Liberation 1
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“there is a new and very much revised edition of Peter's classic book animal Liberation”
William MacAskill going back to Peter Singo where um you said the animal Liberation which was the name of his book which was… 1
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“going back to Peter Singo where um you said the animal Liberation which was the name of his book which was kind of text you know founding text for what became the animal rights movement”
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“you know people I had Pete the singer on the show yesterday Peter Singer managed to impact so many people's lives through animal Liberation that wouldn't have done that without him nudging them in that way”
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“it's nearly 50 years since you first published animal liberation why we release the book now”
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“well you know has have we made progress for Animals over the time since you wrote Animal Liberation um I wanted to answer that question”
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“there were virtually no vegans when in 1975 when the book was published there are now I think supposed to be 1.3 million vegans in the United Kingdom”
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“um in animal Liberation now I think I mentioned three of them one in England one in Germany and one here in Australia”
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“and he happened to come across my animal Liberation at the same time”
Passing
“he's published several books on our moral responsibility to alleviate suffering including the highly influential book animal Liberation and the life you can save both of which are books we cover in this conversation”