Half a Century of Animal Liberation Is Not Enough
Nearly 50 years after the publication of the book credited with triggering the modern animal-rights movement, a thoroughly revised and updated edition captures current conditions. Because of the growth and further intensification of animal production, humans inflict more suffering on animals now than they did in 1975.
MELBOURNE – Fifty years ago, my first article arguing that it is wrong to treat animals as we do appeared in The New York Review of Books. Two years later my book Animal Liberation was published, subsequently to be credited with triggering the modern animal-rights movement.