Peter Singer

What is speciesism?

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

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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

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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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