![]() ![]() (He’s just edited a new version of Apuleius’ “ The Golden Ass,” a second-century Roman novel which, he told me, can be read as a “kind of adventure fiction.” He explained, “The author clearly has some sympathy with animals.”) Singer calls himself a consequentialist: he believes that actions should be judged by their consequences. He has written about birth and death, Hegel and Marx, political philosophy and globalization, and many other topics. Singer, who is seventy-four, is now the author of seventeen books and the editor or co-author of two dozen more. In 1975, Singer expanded the essay into a book, which has been translated into dozens of languages and helped inspire the modern animal-rights movement. Robert Silvers, the magazine’s longtime editor, not only published it he became a vegetarian, too. A few years later, in 1973, Singer proposed an essay called “ Animal Liberation” to The New York Review of Books. ![]() Peter Singer, the Australian philosopher, became a vegetarian in his mid-twenties, after a fellow Oxford graduate student told him, over a spaghetti lunch, about the brutality of factory farms. ![]()
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