Liberation of Animals

First published in 1975 and reissued many times since, this book, which has revolutionized the minds of millions of people around the world and has become a classic of the animal rights movement, has lost none of its relevance. In it, one of the most influential philosophers of our time discusses the senseless suffering inflicted by humans on their lesser brethren, demonstrates the cruelty of industrial livestock farming and the exploitation of laboratory animals for commercial and scientific purposes, exposes the ethical blindness of society, and offers reasonable and humane solutions to this moral, social, and environmental problem. It was included by Time magazine in the list of the hundred most important popular science publications of the last century.