One example of speciesism would be mousetraps. I, for one, am terrified and disgusted by rats, which would sadly make me a speciesist. Majority of people fear rats and mice, but would do anything to get them out of their houses. We set up mousetraps for our own interests, which would be to get them out. Although we succeed with the traps, the mice suffer whether they’re whole body is stuck on the glue of the trap, leaving them unable to move at all or their bodies are snapped with old-fashioned traps. In each case, we do not seem to care about how the mice feel because they were intruders in our home and getting them out would benefit us tremendously. We also do not think about other ways to remove the rat without harming them. Singer feels
