The article “The Moral Status of Animals” examines how humans perceive themselves as having moral status, while at the same time they also justify that non-humans obtain no moral status. Lori Gruen who is the author of this article states that these people often suggest that animals cannot be harmed in a moral sense like humans. But membership to a specific species does not justify the moral claim made by those who belong to the Homo sapiens species. Species membership does not explain why animals are considered to have no moral status. There are distinguishable characteristics that come along with Homo sapiens, but they do not condone morality. Gruen discusses that humanity itself has been an explanation that allows human capacities to be
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The article begins by mentioning history. In history the rights of animals use to be a parody of women’s rights. Thomas Taylor wrote a satirical book about feminists in the 1700s that stated if women were to have rights, then why shouldn’t animals. Singer starts off his article by saying that in order to mention animal rights it would be better to start off by examining the rights of women. Singer mentions that it animal rights and women’s rights should not be treated equally, they should only be considered equally. Consideration of both groups implies that there will still be different treatments and rights. Racism and sexism are both morally wrong when it comes to morality. Thomas Jefferson and Sojourner Truth both contributed to racist and sexist proposals. In the article, both were mentioned to have said that humans should have a high sense of intellect. The argument was that if humans do not possess a higher form of intelligence, then they should not have the same type of equalities that intelligent people have. Equality shuns both ideas, but the idea of “speciesism” should also be shunned from the laws of animal …show more content…
It is important to know that cruelty is not the only way of harm that we should be aware of. Eating animals does not promote animal equality. According to Singer humans should not consume other species because of the way they are treated in their last moments of life. By eating animals, we promote their lives in cages. Humans tend to become accustomed to their daily eating routine. Many can be too tied into eating meat. But if someone wants to fight animal equality they must also try to refrain from eating animals. Singer describes the lives of both chickens and pigs in their farmland habitats. In certain farmlands chickens have wire floors in order to reduce the cost of cleaning. The floors are also at an angle, so eggs can roll to a certain location for easier collection. This makes it very hard for chickens to walk. Pigs are also kept in confined crates, while they also have the same mental capacities as dogs. Dogs are considered to be at a higher specie ranking in the eyes of humans, while they have the same intellect as dogs. Species are being ranked by humans while we should all be treating them the same. When humans put their own interests before animals and non-humans it promotes speciesism. In order to stop speciesism, we must not promote animal eating, harming, or killing. Speciesism also does not promote lab experiments. Singer suggests that universities do a lot of lab work that
The article begins by mentioning history. In history the rights of animals use to be a parody of women’s rights. Thomas Taylor wrote a satirical book about feminists in the 1700s that stated if women were to have rights, then why shouldn’t animals. Singer starts off his article by saying that in order to mention animal rights it would be better to start off by examining the rights of women. Singer mentions that it animal rights and women’s rights should not be treated equally, they should only be considered equally. Consideration of both groups implies that there will still be different treatments and rights. Racism and sexism are both morally wrong when it comes to morality. Thomas Jefferson and Sojourner Truth both contributed to racist and sexist proposals. In the article, both were mentioned to have said that humans should have a high sense of intellect. The argument was that if humans do not possess a higher form of intelligence, then they should not have the same type of equalities that intelligent people have. Equality shuns both ideas, but the idea of “speciesism” should also be shunned from the laws of animal …show more content…
It is important to know that cruelty is not the only way of harm that we should be aware of. Eating animals does not promote animal equality. According to Singer humans should not consume other species because of the way they are treated in their last moments of life. By eating animals, we promote their lives in cages. Humans tend to become accustomed to their daily eating routine. Many can be too tied into eating meat. But if someone wants to fight animal equality they must also try to refrain from eating animals. Singer describes the lives of both chickens and pigs in their farmland habitats. In certain farmlands chickens have wire floors in order to reduce the cost of cleaning. The floors are also at an angle, so eggs can roll to a certain location for easier collection. This makes it very hard for chickens to walk. Pigs are also kept in confined crates, while they also have the same mental capacities as dogs. Dogs are considered to be at a higher specie ranking in the eyes of humans, while they have the same intellect as dogs. Species are being ranked by humans while we should all be treating them the same. When humans put their own interests before animals and non-humans it promotes speciesism. In order to stop speciesism, we must not promote animal eating, harming, or killing. Speciesism also does not promote lab experiments. Singer suggests that universities do a lot of lab work that