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Speciesism and Animal Rights
In the study of animal rights we have compared the lives of animals to that of human beings, this comparison is known as speciesism. The term speciesism is best defined by Peter Singer as a "prejudice or attitude of bias toward the interests of members of ones own species against those of members of other species" (Singer 432). He furthers his discussion of the term by ....
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.... that humans are important but other species are or can be just as important.
In The Principles of Moral and Legislation, Bentham makes a statement that puts the term speciesism and how we are affected by it into a clearer perspective. He says the "The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which could have never been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny" (Bentham 440). The message behind speciesism ....
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