A Rhetorical Analysis Of All Animals Are Equal

In the article “All Animals Are Equal” by Peter Singer, Slinger expresses how animals and humans should be treated the same. Stinger expresses how humans treat other humans with respect but don’t necessarily treat animals the same way some humans even treat them with cruelty. Animals are very similar to humans, some more than others but we need to treat them with as much respect as we treat any human today. Stinger defines speciesism in this article as a prejudice or attitude of bias in favor of the interests of each other. Basically meaning that humans stand for each other and stand against those members of other species. As a whole we need to change that bias because what Slinger tries to say in this article is that we are all equal and if …show more content…
Wild animals will sometimes even kill humans to satisfy their hunger needs. The question asked in this is why humans think we are better than animals when animals don’t necessarily think we are better than them. When we use animals for research and don’t use other human beings is another way Slinger shows that people think we are not equal. Peter uses great examples on how we can use other humans with brain damage to experiment on rather than taking a animals life to save …show more content…
Slinger does this by going through all of the reasons on why both racism and sexism are wrong. When we say all humans are equal based on race and sex what does that even really mean today? This pretty much shows that there are differences comparing humans as there are animals and you’re going to have that no matter what you compare. With that being said we are all equal during our life on this planet today. We should all be treated with the same respect because we are all living on planet earth