Arguments Against Speciesism Essay

Many people have explored racism and they have given more importance to this term rather than giving more importance to speciesism. Speciesism is a term that should be taken more seriously because it has a meaning of discrimination against animals. Although racism is a big problem, speciesism should be taken more seriously due to all the horrible things animals have to deal with, because, animals are being ignored, animals are being abused, and animals are being excluded from their habitat. As though many people would consider animals as useless creatures, that’s why people are supporting racism and giving more importance to racism because they think that supporting animals is pointless. In this society racism is a big term because of all these current events such as shootings, beatings, and arresting of different ethnicities. Due to …show more content…
That’s why the term speciesism comes into demand in this because humans abuse non-human animals and discriminate against the animals. In Chicago Tribute an article called “Woman Convicted in Animal Cruelty Case,” it explains how a woman tortured dozens of dogs and places them to starve in a cage. “A jury has convicted a woman of aggravated animal cruelty and animal torture for allowing dozens of dogs to starve to death in locked cages at her Muddy Paws pet rescue in Deer Park” (Fuller). In this quote, it explains how this woman was put into trial because of how abusive she was with her dogs and how terrible she treated them. Like back then in the past, slaves were considered as animals and were abused by the white people. Saying this, I explained how racism is a major problem now because people of different ethnicity are still being abused by other people, but animals are being abused and not giving any importance about the animals. That’s why animals are now either taken away from their habitats and/or from their