Talk:Animal Liberation (book)

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[edit] Is Animal Liberation the same as Animal Rights?

The edit of [1] states that:

Animal liberation is ... also known as the animal rights movement, although many activists who call themselves liberationists do not subscribe to the idea that animals have moral rights that should be protected.

Since there are animal liberationists who do not subscribe to the tenets of animal rights, it appears incorrect to refer to the two movements as the same.

Changing text to not identify animal liberation with animal rights.

I was about to move this article to Animal Liberation (book) and remove the text about the movement. We already have a page called Animal liberation that's a redirect to Animal rights. It's not ideal, but is there enough published material to write intelligently about the difference between animal liberation and animal rights? Also, please see Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages. Cheers, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 21:05, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Removed sentence

I removed the following sentence:

'Since publishing Animal Liberation and writing about the cruelty in animal testing, he said in 2006 "It is clear at least some animal research does have benefits."' [2]

Although not stating so explicitly, the sentence implies that Singer has changed his stand on animal research. In fact, the utilitarian arguments in Animal Liberation were never strictly abolitionist. Singer has repeatedly clarified that the remarks made on the BBC documentary are not be taken as a revision of the views expressed in his book, including the view that any experiment that's ethically defensible when performed on animals is likewise defensible when performed on human beings at the same mental level. [3] [4]

Willi5willi5 (talk) 04:55, 17 April 2008 (UTC)