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Book: Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement
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  1. Peter Singer _ Animal Liberation: The

    So it is worse to slap a baby than a horse, if both slaps are administered with equal force.
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  2. Peter Singer _ Animal Liberation: The

    Some discoveries would probably have been delayed, or perhaps not made at all; but many false leads would also not have been pursued, and it is possible that medicine would have developed in a very different and more efficacious direction, emphasizing healthy living rather than cure. In
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  3. Peter Singer _ Animal Liberation: The

    Why should people be dying from an invariably fatal disease while a potential cure is tested on animals who do not normally develop AIDS anyway? The
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  4. Peter Singer _ Animal Liberation: The

    The United States government continues to pour billions of dollars into research on cancer, while it also subsidizes the tobacco industry. Much of the research money goes toward animal experiments, many of them only remotely connected with fighting cancer-experimenters have been known to relabel their work "cancer research" when they found they could get more money for it that way than under some other label.
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  5. Peter Singer _ Animal Liberation: The

    As this chapter has shown, we are in the midst of an emergency in which appalling suffering is being inflicted on millions of animals for purposes that on any impartial view are obviously inadequate to justify the suffering.
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  6. Peter Singer _ Animal Liberation: The

    As the United States lagged behind the civilized world in outlawing human slavery, so the United States now lags behind in softening the unrestrained brutalities of animal slavery.
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  7. Peter Singer _ Animal Liberation: The

    Should thousands of animals suffer so that a new kind of lipstick or floor wax can be put on the market?
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  8. Peter Singer _ Animal Liberation: The

    Now that we have understood the nature of speciesism and seen the consequences it has for nonhuman animals it is time to ask: What can we do about it? There are many things that we can and should do about speciesism. We should, for instance, write to our political representatives about the issues discussed in this book; we should make our friends aware of these issues; we should educate our children to be concerned about the welfare of all sentient beings; and we should protest publicly on behalf of nonhuman animals whenever we have an effective opportunity to do so. While
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  9. Peter Singer _ Animal Liberation: The

    If we avoid junk foods that are high in sugar or fats and nothing else, about the only way we can fail to get enough protein is if we are on a diet that is insufficient in calories.36 Protein
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  10. Peter Singer _ Animal Liberation: The

    If the foundations of an ideological position are knocked out from under it, new foundations will be found, or else the ideological position will just hang there, defying the logical equivalent of the laws of gravity.
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  11. Peter Singer _ Animal Liberation: The

    Whatever the theoretical possibilities of rearing animals without suffering may be, the fact is that the meat available from butchers and supermarkets comes from animals who were not treated with any real consideration at all while being reared. So we must ask ourselves, not: Is it ever right to eat meat? but: Is it right to eat this meat?
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  12. Peter Singer _ Animal Liberation: The

    We have still not answered the question of when an experiment might be justifiable. It will not do to say "Never!" Putting morality in such black-and-white terms is appealing, because it eliminates the need to think about particular cases; but in extreme circumstances, such absolutist answers always break down. Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong. If torture were the only way in which we could discover the location of a nuclear bomb hidden in a New York City basement and timed to go off within the hour, then torture would be justifiable.
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