In 1971, a half-dozen graduate students at Oxford University held what was perhaps the first protest of the modern animal rights movement.
But one of those students, a young Australian philosopher named Peter Singer, turned his ideas into a transformative 1975 book, “Animal Liberation,” that was initially mocked for overreach.
“The animal movement was still widely seen as crackpot,” Singer recalls.
Singer has just issued a new edition of the book, updated and titled “Animal Liberation Now.” It’s a monument to the remarkable spread of the ideas he articulated in 1975.
At least nine states and the European Union now ban veal crates, hen cages or tight stalls for sows.
Persons:
Peter Singer, overreach, ” Singer, Singer
Organizations:
Oxford University, European Union, McDonalds
Locations:
Australian, America