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Quotes from Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals — Peter Singer

born 1946 Australia

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Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too.

Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975)

Speciesism—the word is not an attractive one, but I can think of no better term—is a prejudice or attitude of bias in favor of the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species.

Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975)

Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself pure and so without responsibility for the cruelty and carnage all around. Becoming a vegetarian is a highly practical and effective step one can take toward ending both the killing of nonhuman animals and the infliction of suffering upon them.

Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975)

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