![]() The process has made me wonder what my younger self would have thought if he had known that, 48 years later, meat consumption would be higher than ever. I have been asking myself this question recently while working on Animal Liberation Now, which renews and updates my earlier book. I never could have predicted that vegan living and carnivorousness might rise in tandem in the same society. And yet the paradoxical fact remains: Even as the ethical arguments for avoiding meat have become better known, meat consumption has risen not only in countries that are emerging out of poverty, but in the U.S. ![]() I believed I had proved that there was no reasonable defense for animal cruelty.Īt the time, my position was widely considered radical, even bizarre. Though I described how animals are forced to endure extreme suffering on factory farms and in laboratories, my appeal was to rationality, not emotion. On that basis, I urged readers to stop eating meat. I argued that our treatment of animals is ethically unjustifiable: If it’s wrong to cause unnecessary suffering, then it’s wrong regardless of the sufferer’s species. ![]() My book Animal Liberationwas published in 1975, when I was 29 years old. H ow do you persuade the whole world to stop eating meat? ![]()
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