Even before the publication of his seminal Animal Liberation in
1975, Peter Singer, one of the greatest moral philosophers of our
time, unflinchingly challenged the ethics of eating animals. Now,
in Why Vegan?, Singer brings together the most consequential essays
of his career to make this devastating case against our failure to
confront what we are doing to animals, to public health, and to our
planet. From his 1973 manifesto for Animal Liberation to his
personal account of becoming a vegetarian in "The Oxford
Vegetarians" and to investigating the impact of meat on global
warming, Singer traces the historical arc of the animal rights,
vegetarian, and vegan movements from their embryonic days to today,
when climate change and global pandemics threaten the very
existence of humans and animals alike. In his introduction and in
"The Two Dark Sides of COVID-19," cowritten with Paola Cavalieri,
Singer excoriates the appalling health hazards of Chinese wet
markets-where thousands of animals endure almost endless brutality
and suffering-but also reminds westerners that they cannot blame
China alone without also acknowledging the perils of our own
factory farms, where unimaginably overcrowded sheds create the
ideal environment for viruses to mutate and multiply. Spanning more
than five decades of writing on the systemic mistreatment of
animals, Why Vegan? features a topical new introduction, along with
nine other essays, including: * "An Ethical Way of Treating
Chickens?," which opens our eyes to the lives of the birds who end
up on so many plates-and to the lives of their parents; * "If Fish
Could Scream," an essay exposing the utter indifference of
commercial fishing practices to the experiences of the sentient
beings they scoop from the oceans in such unimaginably vast
numbers; * "The Case for Going Vegan," in which Singer assembles
his most powerful case for boycotting the animal production
industry; * And most recently, in the introduction to this book and
in "The Two Dark Sides of COVID-19," Singer points to a new reason
for avoiding meat: the role eating animals has played, and will
play, in pandemics past, present, and future. Written in Singer's
pellucid prose, Why Vegan? asserts that human tyranny over animals
is a wrong comparable to racism and sexism. The book ultimately
becomes an urgent call to reframe our lives in order to redeem
ourselves and alter the calamitous trajectory of our imperiled
planet.
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