Why vegan? /

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Author / Creator:Singer, Peter, 1946- author.
Edition:First American edition.
Imprint:New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2020.
©2020
Description:xi, 82 pages ; 20 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12416749
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ISBN:9781631498565
1631498568
9781631498572
Notes:"Eating ethically"--Cover.
Summary:"Never has Peter Singer's Why Vegan? been more relevant and more necessary, in a world still reeling from a global pandemic crisis. Peter Singer's groundbreaking essay collection denounces human tyranny over animals and demonstrates the need for all of us to eliminate our dependence on meat. Collecting his most important writings from as early as the 1970s-some even before the 1975 publication of his seminal Animal Liberation-Singer illuminates his personal path and the trajectory society needs to take after the coronavirus crisis. In doing so, Why Vegan? makes a devastating case against our failure to confront the consequences of mistreating other beings-not only for the lives of animals, but also for the endangered health of our planet. Whether examining the meat industry's disastrous contributions to climate change or showing how westerners cannot blame China for the repercussions of a live animal market without also acknowledging the viral danger of their own factory farm practices, Singer urges us to reconsider how we lead our lives in the twenty-first century"--
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Animal Liberation: Preface to the 1975 Edition
  • Animal Liberation (1973)
  • An Ethical Way of Treating Chickens? (co-written with Jim Mason) (2006)
  • The Oxford Vegetarians: A Personal Account (1982)
  • A Vegetarian Philosophy (1998)
  • If Fish Could Scream (2010)
  • The Case for Going Vegan (2007)
  • Can Cultured Meat Save the Planet? (2018)
  • The Two Dark Sides of COVID-19 (co-written with Paola Cavalieri) (2020)