![]() ![]() ![]() I talked about the book, I wrote about it, I gave copies to everyone I knew. I still ate meat and wore leather, as I had yet to make that connection, but I was plagued by an underlying sense that there was something inherently wrong with how animals were so easily subjugated and abused.Īfter reading Animal Liberation, I realized that in the same way that racist and sexist views allowed us to discriminate against minorities and women, speciesism allowed us to inscribe an inferior status on animals and to regard them not as individuals, but as objects and means to fulfill our desires. I had witnessed appalling acts of cruelty to animals and I would cry as I drove home at night. ![]() I had been working in animal protection for 10 years in Washington, D.C., as a deputy sheriff, cruelty investigator, and head of the animal-disease-control division of the D.C. Someone has given a voice to it.” Long after I finished reading the book, Peter Singer’s words kept echoing through my mind. I thought, “Here it is, this is what I’ve been thinking. When a friend gave me a copy of Animal Liberation in 1980, it was an epiphany. It made people-myself included–change what we ate, what we wore, and how we perceived animals. It forever changed the conversation about our treatment of animals. First published in 1975, Animal Liberation was a philosophical bombshell. ![]()
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