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Preface To Animal Liberation Study Guide

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Salem1 Khaled Salem Professor: Sean Pessin ENGL113A Feb 11, 2015 Summary of Preface to Animal Liberation Preface to the 1975 Edition: 1- This book is about violence of human over animals 2- Facing this violence is important as any social issues that have been fought over in many years ago. 3- Mr. Singer’s wife has a friend who wrote a book about animals so she made his husband meet them 4- The author thought it wrong to inflict unnecessary suffering on anyone. 5- This book is not easy to read for those who think that love animals needs no more than feeding cat. 6- The substantial principle of equal consideration is not limited to members of their species. 7- This book made no emotional exception toward cute animals. 8- This book teaches us …show more content…

Salem2 13- The author mentioned that if they cease killing animals for food, they can make extra food for society. Prefaces to the 1990 Edition: 14- The liberation movements had made Animal Liberation a clear steps in this book 15- The author consecrated this edition to the readers because without them the first edition would have suffered the destiny of Henry Salt’s book 16- The financial interests did all what they can do to get their right to trade on animals for high profit. 17- The rise of Animal Liberation movement has been effective due to high increase in this amount which its written on the topics 18- There are two major fields of animal use in our attitudes: experimentation and farming. 19- The author did not try to describe the campaigns and achievements of Animals Liberation in details because of some activists. 20- Activists tried different methods for advancing toward the purpose of animal liberation. 21- The literal liberation of animals can only be a symbol gesture, and that is serious issue. 22- There are some successful leaders of liberation movements, such as Gandhi and Luther King, and they stuck to the principle of …show more content…

The reason that made me writing this letter is to discuss with you three main points you have mentioned. First, society should fight the violence of human over nonhuman animals. I truly agree with your point, and I think you gave the readers clear reasons to support your statement. Second, you clarify that your purpose of this book is to make mental switch in our attitude. It is long process to change how people think about animals. Even though you said "the basic principle of Animal Liberation are very simple", I think the readers found this principle difficult to understand, and so you spent several years to

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