--- product_id: 1699041 title: "Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (Ecco)" price: "$47.00" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/1699041-animal-liberation-the-definitive-classic-of-the-animal-movement-ecco store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (Ecco) **Price:** $47.00 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (Ecco) - **How much does it cost?** $47.00 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/1699041-animal-liberation-the-definitive-classic-of-the-animal-movement-ecco) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description “A most important book that will change the way many of us look at animals—and, ultimately, at ourselves.” — Chicago Tribune Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"—our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals—inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them. In Animal Liberation , author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory farms" and product-testing procedures—destroying the spurious justifications behind them, and offering alternatives to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice, it is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike. Review: The Modern Seminal Work on the Slaughter of Animals in the Food Industry - This is one of THREE books I cite as seminal to a book I am writing myself entitled "Stop the Slaughter: Thoughts on Theriocide," which I hope readers will be able to purchase at desertcart at some future date. This work, "Animal Liberation NOW was originally published in 1975. This is the 2023 rewrite subtitled "The Definitive Classic Renewed" with a superb foreword by Yuval Noah Harari. Chapter One's description in the Table of Contents reads: "All animals are equal...or why the ethical principle on which human equality rests requires us to extend equal consideration to animals too. This is because WE are animals too...and they deserve rights to freedom and from unfair and destructive exploitation. This is just a great book...was and is now improved. -Lee B. Croft Review: This Book Will Wake You Up to The Horrors of Animal Abuse - Frankly, I had to throw this book away. I ordered it after reading about it in a New Yorker article about the senseless killing of songbirds for fun and food. I expected the book to be a philosophical take on the issue of animal cruelty, which has been something of a big concern for me for many years (pretty much since I become fully cognizant of the fact that poultry and beef didn't grow on trees, and were not some abstract substances, but, at some point, none other than living, breathing, conscious creatures.) The book, however, offers very detailed and extremely disturbing descriptions of various forms of physical and emotional suffering that billions of animals are subjected to in the course of their very short and very miserable lives. The author depicts the practices of "personnel" (supposedly human) working in the food industry (its first link - the meat/dairy plants) and the scientific/laboratory research - which present the two most horrific forms of animal abuse. Speaking about the often used in a "cute" context term "guinea pigs," lab animals are put through unthinkable suffering varying from living through the process of harsh chemicals being instilled in their eyes (rabbits) while they are restrained by special equipment that doesn't allow for any type of movement, as the "scientist" diligently observes and records the damage the chemical does to the eye over the course of several days (the end result - destroyed pupil of the eye.) And let's just leave it at that, it's the mildest of the experiments sited by the author (and accomponied by several pictures of the above mentioned rabbit, its eyes and the equipment). I was only able to go a few pages into the chapter before I had to put this book aside due to the palpitations I felt in my chest. I stopped at the "humorous" description in a catalog of the laboratory animal equipment that left me grasping for words: it mentioned a restrictor for rats where "the only thing that will wiggle is the nose." Next thing I did was throw the book away, especially that it also came with several disturbing photographs: I simply did not want to have this kind of "material" sitting in my book case. That said, if someone has thicker skin or can skip through the chapters that deal with the "underbelly" of the food industry and scientific progress (although the author argues with the notion that experimenting on animals actually entails that much of a progress) and onto the chapters that deal with how each individual can contribute to reducing the amount of suffering, this book can be more than a useful read. It could also be a good eye opener for those who still think that animals feel no emotion and so "their suffering is pretty devoid of anything conscious," or that tender veal chops are too, well, tender to pass up on at a restaurant (hopefully their opinion will change after they find out what is done to baby calves before they become those tender delectables.) Animals do have the same pain receptors as humans, and they do feel fear and anxiety, and great psychological suffering. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #999,828 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #5 in Animal Rights (Books) #90 in Ecology (Books) #127 in Environmental Science (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 696 Reviews | ## Images ![Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (Ecco) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/715tg6iAC7L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Modern Seminal Work on the Slaughter of Animals in the Food Industry *by L***T on April 24, 2026* This is one of THREE books I cite as seminal to a book I am writing myself entitled "Stop the Slaughter: Thoughts on Theriocide," which I hope readers will be able to purchase at Amazon at some future date. This work, "Animal Liberation NOW was originally published in 1975. This is the 2023 rewrite subtitled "The Definitive Classic Renewed" with a superb foreword by Yuval Noah Harari. Chapter One's description in the Table of Contents reads: "All animals are equal...or why the ethical principle on which human equality rests requires us to extend equal consideration to animals too. This is because WE are animals too...and they deserve rights to freedom and from unfair and destructive exploitation. This is just a great book...was and is now improved. -Lee B. Croft ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This Book Will Wake You Up to The Horrors of Animal Abuse *by E***A on September 12, 2010* Frankly, I had to throw this book away. I ordered it after reading about it in a New Yorker article about the senseless killing of songbirds for fun and food. I expected the book to be a philosophical take on the issue of animal cruelty, which has been something of a big concern for me for many years (pretty much since I become fully cognizant of the fact that poultry and beef didn't grow on trees, and were not some abstract substances, but, at some point, none other than living, breathing, conscious creatures.) The book, however, offers very detailed and extremely disturbing descriptions of various forms of physical and emotional suffering that billions of animals are subjected to in the course of their very short and very miserable lives. The author depicts the practices of "personnel" (supposedly human) working in the food industry (its first link - the meat/dairy plants) and the scientific/laboratory research - which present the two most horrific forms of animal abuse. Speaking about the often used in a "cute" context term "guinea pigs," lab animals are put through unthinkable suffering varying from living through the process of harsh chemicals being instilled in their eyes (rabbits) while they are restrained by special equipment that doesn't allow for any type of movement, as the "scientist" diligently observes and records the damage the chemical does to the eye over the course of several days (the end result - destroyed pupil of the eye.) And let's just leave it at that, it's the mildest of the experiments sited by the author (and accomponied by several pictures of the above mentioned rabbit, its eyes and the equipment). I was only able to go a few pages into the chapter before I had to put this book aside due to the palpitations I felt in my chest. I stopped at the "humorous" description in a catalog of the laboratory animal equipment that left me grasping for words: it mentioned a restrictor for rats where "the only thing that will wiggle is the nose." Next thing I did was throw the book away, especially that it also came with several disturbing photographs: I simply did not want to have this kind of "material" sitting in my book case. That said, if someone has thicker skin or can skip through the chapters that deal with the "underbelly" of the food industry and scientific progress (although the author argues with the notion that experimenting on animals actually entails that much of a progress) and onto the chapters that deal with how each individual can contribute to reducing the amount of suffering, this book can be more than a useful read. It could also be a good eye opener for those who still think that animals feel no emotion and so "their suffering is pretty devoid of anything conscious," or that tender veal chops are too, well, tender to pass up on at a restaurant (hopefully their opinion will change after they find out what is done to baby calves before they become those tender delectables.) Animals do have the same pain receptors as humans, and they do feel fear and anxiety, and great psychological suffering. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Bible of the animal rights movement *by E***O on May 12, 2025* Considered the Bible of the animal rights movement. Written by philosopher Peter Singer. Answers the question , is it morally correct to eat and experiment on animals. From a reasonable and science based view. 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