Singer’s argument for lobbying against animal cruelty is highly respected and is used for most scholarly debates. His published book, Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals, is widely considered within the animal liberation movement to be the founding philosophical statement of its ideas. Many, however, do not agree with Singer’s argument that nonhuman animal suffering should be taken into consideration when compared to human suffering. Their argument is mainly that animals do not have feelings, nor do their lives compare to that of humans. One of their biggest arguments is wildlife refuges, where hunters are allowed to “harvest”, or kill, excess population to prevent overpopulation of animals. Also, with the prevalence
