illustrations of a pattern of animals including giraffes, monkeys, elephants, leopards, turkeys, ferrets

Updating Animal Rights

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 1, 2023

Peter Singer, philosopher, professor of bioethics at Princeton University, author of Animal Liberation in 1975 and Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed (Harper Perennial, 2023)
talks about the new edition of his classic 1975 work, connecting animal rights to crises from climate change to the spread of new viruses.

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