Speciesism

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…

Animals have been used to learn more about the human body since approximately 500 BC. Aristotle practiced vivisections, dissecting living animals, in order to understand how human bodies worked (Should). The ethicality of animal testing has recently become a very controversial issue in America. The US federally regulates animal testing with the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), which was passed in 1966 (Should). Testing chemicals on animals has allowed new medical discoveries to be made. Is it ethical…

Second, Singer states that we should think animals are suffering the pain as human begin when we use violent behavior to treat them. “If I slap a human baby in the face with a little bit of force, and I slap a horse on its rear with the same amount of force, then I've hurt the baby more than I've hurt the horse, and so I've done something worse to the baby than I've done to the horse”. Singer uses this example to illustrate that the human and non-human have the same feeling of pain when they get…

Animal testing has been around for thousands of years and has strong support and opposition.Animals are used to test everything from makeup, to medical, and household chemicals.Those in favor of using animals for testing are looking to save human lives as well as reduce human pain and suffering.Those against animal testing say that animals often are not similar enough to humans and that they suffer unnecessarily.In order to know about animal testing, it is important to know its History, Benefits…

considered a person. One could make the argument that only homo-sapiens are considered persons, therefore no animals have moral status. The idea that a certain species should have its considerations considered for over those of another species is speciesism, which follows the same arbitrary thinking that racism and sexism undergo. The basic principle of equality is to…

mother’s life is in danger. I will defend my argument by explaining how a fetus is a human being and that abortion deprives the fetus from having its meaningful future. Lastly, I will respond to the objections of a fetus not being a human being, speciesism, and specific cases of genetic defects in a fetus. The first and main thing I must address is the phrase “human being.” We can all agree, that a fetus is a human being in the biological sense. When looking at human life from a moral point of…

where humans were treated as animals in concentration camps. Mrs. Costello is an activist against the mistreatment of animals in labs and factory farms where animals are raised “for the purpose of killing them” (21). This proves that she is against speciesism, which can be defined as prejudice against other species by exploiting them in favor of one’s own interest. Elizabeth Costello is an environmentalist due to the fact that she considers the environment to have a primary influence on the…

and people make animals poor model for human being because “we are not 70 kg rats." Same people might say, Animals must be used in cases when ethical considerations prevent the use of human subjects. Animals can suffer like humans do, so it is speciesism to experiment on them while we refrain from experimenting on…

“Approximately 100,000-200,000 animals suffer and die just for cosmetics every year around the world,” said Michael Sharp, a writer for the All Animals magazine (Sharp). Animal testing should be illegal. Everyone should take part in the petition to ban animal testing. Animal Testing is cruel, there are better alternatives, and it’s impractical. The illegalization of animal testing would be beneficial to the welfare of animals around the world. This would prevent the unnecessary deaths of…

author provides his view of that an individual in abnegation of animal interests would perceive that animal interests have little value when being compared to human interests. Benatar quotes fellow English philosopher Richard Ryder's coined term 'speciesism' and defines it as being a 'species analogue of racism and sexism.' In referencing this term, Benatar states that humans would be exercising discrimination if they gave different moral weight to the interests of animals. He later recognizes…