The book that started everything. Australian philosopher Peter Singer made the case that species membership alone isn't a morally relevant criterion for how we treat a being, what matters is the capacity to suffer. He coined the term "speciesism" and applied rigorous utilitarian logic to factory farming, animal testing, and the contradictions embedded in how humans relate to other animals.

By Peter Singer • 2023 Singer's own update to his foundational text, fifty odd years later. Same core arguments, but with revised statistics, contemporary examples, new scientific evidence on animal cognition and sentience, and engagement with criticisms that emerged over the decades. It also grapples with issues the 1975 edition couldn't anticipate - industrial aquaculture, the global explosion of factory farming in Asia and South America, and - the sliver lining on the mush

By Melanie Joy • 2009 Psychologist Melanie Joy named something that had been hiding in plain sight: carnism , the invisible belief system that conditions people to eat certain animals while loving others. This isn't a book about why veganism is right, it's a book about why most people don't see the contradiction in the first place (did you catch it? If not, this book is definitely for you). Joy dissects the psychological defence mechanisms (denial, justification, perceptual

A young man begins investigating the underworld of "factory farming" and soon discovers a growing political and intellectual movement that considers animals as important as humans. Imdb link Release date: 18 September 2013 Director: Mark Devries Producer: Mark Devries Cinematography: Mark Devries, Alanna Andrews, Alex Melonas Running time: 1h 34m