Speciesism

suffer greatly in order to satisfy our needs of food. This, according to the author, can be described as speciesism as animals are killed in many horrific ways. It denies any other species interests other from humans in every way because we doing for nothing else but pleasure. Also, Singer suggests that experimenting with other species for human interests is another major form of speciesism. Animals are chosen for experiments because they are irrational, but there are irrational humans as well.…

this moral obligation, create an obligation to find new alternatives as well. A quote by Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez states, “where alternatives don 't exist, the moral task of science is to discover them.” We must circumvent the inherent speciesism within ourselves just as we did racism and sexism despite the consequences we find make it “worth…

when claiming, “From the very beginning of my writing on these issues, I have drawn parallels between racism, sexism, and speciesism... a dominant group develops an ideology that justifies treating outsiders in ways that are to its benefit. This ideology also disregards or discounts the interests of these outsiders…” (148). My art piece puts the effects of racism and speciesism on display. They human is on the outside of the jail cell with the giant wings stolen from the bird inside. It means to…

discovery of the prevalent prejudice undue him in the world he was brought into. Although Frankenstein had every intention of creating an almost perfect human, to whom he can be called its god and lord, he himself is guilty of engaging in behaviors of speciesism by affording the creature of his…

the meat-economy that exists and if it can be justified, morally and sustainably. Peter Singer, A crucial thinker in the realm of Animal Welfarism, claims that “grounding claim of intrinsic value based on any set of special properties is a form of speciesism” (29). In his article titled All Animals are Equal, Singer debates the way we treat animals during their life span while in these “industrial feedlots” (49) is unjust. Singer claims that the animals are cramped…

moral standing or do they need to be a part of the moral community to be accepted as equals? Singer's view is that non-human animals should be equal to humans because they have the ability to feel pain/ suffer and avoid suffering and that, overall Speciesism is wrong. Fox’s view is that animals have to have certain characteristics to be part of the moral community, so they don't have rights, so they shouldn't be part of the community. Both have a different perspective, whether non-human animals…

is an inhumane practice I intend to get banned. I have signed petitions through the humane society to enact legislation regarding the banning of animal testing in cosmetics in hopes to end the disgusting, unnecessary treatment of these victims of speciesism. I cannot live a fulfilled life knowing there is a horrific genocide of living, conscious beings that have feelings and families without doing whatever I can to stop it from happening. One of the leading causes of global warming that most do…

has taken form as concentration camps, slave trades, and caste systems. An evolving platform that has caused some to speak out against discrimination recently, however, does not even involve humans. Animal rights activists have labeled this as “speciesism” and involves the discrimination of animals and the belief that humans are superior due to their species. Many people have spoken out about this issue on either side, but the way that they present their argument will allow for a true decision…

differentiating factor. In Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, through the evolution of the characters’ shifting perception of the spider, PKD uses the insect as a guide in order to reveal the destruction of traditional ideas rooted in speciesism and its gradual replacement with ideas that begin to hesitantly include a variety of species, mainly the androids. The value of empathy shifts as the parallel between androids and spiders destroy old stereotypes and prejudices,…

the humilitarian in humans, and offers an alluring point of view. When I completed this reading I believe that it was written very eloquently. However, it felt manipulated, particularly in his use of the term “speciesism.” Throughout Singer’s writing I felt that he was implying speciesism, discrimination based on species, as strictly human circumstance. When reading this I cannot help but argue the fact that, every animal in fact follows this…