ANIMAL LIBERATION: A New Ethics For Our Treatment of Animals

"A case for animal equality

Today, as never before, we are subjecting animals to scientific experimentation, wearing furs and leather goods, and eating commercially produced meats--casually accepting animal slaughter as a necessary way of life, and carefully ignoring the inhumanity and illogic of our behavior. There are extensive federally financed programs in which animals are poisoned, starved, and tortured, although many authorities now say the experiments are not worth doing and yield results not worth publishing. There are hundreds of millions of animals living in spaces so cramped that they barely experience their bodies, but these are the livestock that bring premium prices at the market, and so the practice continues."