Animal Liberation Now (2023)

Written on February 3rd , 2024 by James

Author: Peter Singer

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Until recently I didn’t know that Peter Singer was most famous for this book more than any other. Orignally published in the 1970’s this rerelease is a more up to date version of the original book (sans the word ‘Now’).

I had always been an omnivore and sometimes proudly, but I had always mostly eaten plant-based food at home. But this book has more or less changed my mind on animal meat all together. In the past my sympathy for vegetarianism was always from an environmental perspective, but since reading this book I now see that the case for not eating meat due to how much suffering it causes to other living and feeling creatures is basically the most enduring and compelling reason to stop.

This is a stunning book and something that has the power to change even the most ardent carnivore’s mind.