The Influence Of Speciesism On Non-Human Animals

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Restraining the rabbits and putting products into their eyes, then leaving it in their eyes for a while until washing it out and checking for ill effects, and this one of the most common methods for testing the cosmetics. We could never dream of using humans in these manners, but we do not tend to think twice when doing something to the non-human animals. The word ‘speciesism’ is used by the Australian philosopher, Peter Singer, to describe we we prefer to our own species over some other species, in the lack of morally relevant differences.

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