Peter Singer

What is speciesism?

3 definitions of ‘speciesism’ plus a discussion and an infographic

The reason why I think the word “speciesism” needs to be discussed is because I’ve seen different definitions of it and one of those definitions I believe is misguided and it is the one which Google finds and places at the top of their search results (on December 7, 2022-things change!) PETA’s definition This is …

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Peter Singer

People should expand their circle of moral concern to all sentient beings, everywhere

The words in the title are from Peter Singer who wrote the acclaimed book, Animal Liberation, published in 1975. In the book he argued that humankind had a tendency toward speciesism meaning that humans attach far greater importance to themselves than they do to other species of animal. Singer asked that people should ‘expand their …

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