Download or read book The Oxford Group and the Emergence of Animal Rights written by Robert Garner and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an account of the life and times of a loose friendship group (later christened the Oxford Group) of around 10 people, primarily postgraduate philosophy students, who attended the University of Oxford for a short period of time from the late 1960s. The Oxford Group, which included - most notably - Peter Singer and Richard Ryder, set about thinking, talking and promoting the idea of animal rights and vegetarianism. The group therefore played a, previously largely undocumented and unacknowledged, role in the emergence of the animal rights movement and the discipline of animal ethics"--