Peter Singer and Animal Rights

Philosopher Peter Singer coined the term specieism, making it equal to any typical form of racism:

Adult chimpanzees, dogs, pigs, and members of many other species far surpass the brain-damaged infant in their ability to relate to others, act independently, be self-aware, and possess any other capacity that could reasonably be said to give value to life. … The only thing that distinguishes the infant from animals, in the eyes of those who claim it has a right to life, is that it is biologically a member of the species Homo sapiens. … But to use this difference as the basis for granting a right to life to the infant and not to other animals is pure speciesism. It is exactly the kind of arbitrary difference that the most crude and overt kind of racist uses in attempting to justify racial discrimination.

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