Why Vegan?

Informationen zum Autor Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He was born in Melbourne in 1946. His major works include Animal Liberation , Practical Ethics , How Are We to Live? and The Life You Can Save. Klappentext 'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?' One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our lives. The ideas collected in these writings, arguing that human tyranny over animals is a wrong comparable to racism and sexism, triggered the animal rights movement and gave impetus to the rise in vegan eating. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists. Zusammenfassung 'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?' One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our lives. The ideas collected in these writings, arguing that human tyranny over animals is a wrong comparable to racism and sexism, triggered the animal rights movement and gave impetus to the rise in vegan eating. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

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The argument is short, simple, and irrefutable; the supporting detail - what is done to animals in the course of turning them into food for human beings - is profoundly upsetting. Whoever is not persuaded by these essays of Peter Singer's does not have ears to hear. J. M. Coetzee

Product details

• Authors: Peter Singer
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.09.2020
• EAN: 9780241472385
• ISBN: 978-0-241-47238-5
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Great Ideas; Penguin Press Great Ideas; Great Ideas
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Guides > Food & drink; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Vegetarian cookery, COOKING / Vegan, SCIENCE / Ethics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethical issues & debates, Vegan Cookery and veganism, Ethical issues and debates