In Defense of Animals

August 15, 2005
Singer (bioethics, Princeton Univ.; "Animal Liberation") is widely considered to be the father of the animal rights movement. This collection, first published in 1985, revises some of the original essays (especially in Part 3) and features an updated resources section, which provides not only hard-copy materials but also web sites. Unfortunately, as with many revised editions, the change is minimal, with Singer simply updating names, places, dates, and concepts as opposed to reexamining the issue in its entirety. While there is a great deal of information here that will interest the animal rights community, including a how-to guide for effective activism, there is little that is genuinely new. Only for libraries with comprehensive animal rights collections. -Alicia Graybill, Southeast Lib. Syst., Lincoln, NB

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