Its called Animal Liberation now. Is the publication of this Update Recognition that your call, your demand for a new relationship between humanity and all the other creatures on this planet, that that call failed . Well, it failed to achieve what i had hoped it would achieve and what i believe ethically it needs to achieve, thats true. It didnt totally fail because there is now an Animal Rights movement which is a powerfulforce in many of the countries in the world and many people kindly credit my book as having triggered or inspired that movement. And that movement has had some achievements in some countries, i wouldnt deny that, but if we look at it globally, there are more animals in factory farms than there were ever before and there are more animals suffering from human use and misuse than there were before, so yes, i have to accept in that sense, it has failed. Isnt your most fundamental principle a simple one . That is, that human beings have no moral, ethical right to exploit
Its called Animal Liberation now. Is the publication of this Update Recognition that your call, your demand for a new relationship between humanity and all the other creatures on this planet, that that call failed . Well, it failed to achieve what i had hoped it would achieve and what i believe ethically it needs to achieve, thats true. It didnt totally fail because there is now an Animal Rights movement which is a powerful force in many of the countries in the world and many people kindly credit my book as having triggered or inspired that movement. And that movement has had some achievements in some countries, i wouldnt deny that, but if we look at it globally, there are more animals in factory farms than there were ever before and there are more animals suffering from human use and misuse than there were before, so yes, i have to accept in that sense, it has failed. Isnt your most fundamental principle a simple one . That is, that human beings have no moral, ethical right to exploit
As co-inhabitants and co-owners of the world, all Earthlings deserve equal treatment and protection. Ratan Tata s announcement of a healthcare centre for animals in Mumbai is a tangible step towards resisting speciesism and promoting the well-being of all living beings, regardless of species.
unacceptable. do you think that resonated with most of humanity? well, i said that because i wanted to get people to take the issue seriously. i felt that, at the time the first book came out, issues about animals were just not taken as serious moral questions at all and i do think that i and the animal movement have succeeded in making people recognise that these are serious moral issues. so, to that extent, i think i was justified in what i said. that doesn t mean that i ve persuaded everybody to look at it in this way but i want people to see the analogies between those racism, sexism and speciesism. now, you talk about the degree to which you are disappointed and you talked about exploitation of animals through, for example, factory farming. is part of the problem here that the book and the updated
sexism and speciesism. now, you talk about the degree to which you are disappointed and you talked about exploitation of animals through, for example, factory farming. is part of the problem here that the book and the updated book, they have a much wider audience and arguably, much greater influence, in the western world of which, of course, you are a part than they do in the developing and emerging economies of this world i m thinking, for example, of china where, actually, the argument right now is perhaps most humane and most important because it s in countries like china that the massive expansion of meat consumption and of industrialised factory farming is happening? that s true. and i hope that in some time, these ideas will have resonance in china.