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Ethics into action : Henry Spira and the animal rights movement
Peter Singer
Published by Melbourne University Press (1999)

Book description

Henry Spira is a lifelong activist and founder of the modern animal rights movement. Inspired by the thinking of Peter Singer in the early 1970s, Henry turned Singer's ethical lessons into action, launching campaigns against organisations whose practices caused unnecessary suffering to animas. He has taken on some of the most powerful companies in America, including Revlon, Avon, Perdue, and McDonald's with extraordinary success. His respectful, though forceful, dialogue with these opponents convinces them that they can change their procedures without losing face or profit. This inspiring story of Henry's life and his campaigns proposes that his remarkable successful method of action can be adopted by activists of all kinds.

About the Author

Peter Singer is Professor of Philosophy at Monash University and was the Director of Monash's Centre for Human Bioethics from 1983 to 1991.  His best-selling Animal Liberation first (1976) triggered the contemporary animal rights movement world-wide.  His other works include Democracy and disobedience (1963), The expanding circle : ethics and sociobiology (1981), How are we to live? : ethics in an age of self-interest (1993) and Practical ethics (1993).


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