Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Intolerance or discrimination on the basis of species, especially as manifested by cruelty to or exploitation of animals by humans.
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- noun An ethical
stance that assigns different worth or rights tobeings on the basis of their species membership, such as assigning vastly different rights to animals and to humans.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Animal Liberation\, Singer argues against what he calls speciesism\: discrimination on the grounds that a being belongs to a certain species.
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In Animal Liberation, Singer argues against what he calls speciesism: discrimination on the grounds that a being belongs to a certain species.
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His own personal ethics, yes, they call it "speciesism".
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His own personal ethics, yes, they call it "speciesism".
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His own personal ethics, yes, they call it "speciesism".
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But there's a lot more to the 43-year-old Miller, who calls himself a "recovering suburbanite," an anarchist and has an anti-capitalist Web site promoting "veganism" and denouncing "speciesism" - the belief that humans are the dominant species and can do whatever they want to animals.
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As pointed up in several articles about this phenomenon, including by Dr. Pepperberg, any time experimental evidence is presented of animal learning and cognition, those who are invested utterly in "speciesism" thanks Dr. Singer simply move the bar or redefine what "intelligence" is.
February 2010 2010
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As pointed up in several articles about this phenomenon, including by Dr. Pepperberg, any time experimental evidence is presented of animal learning and cognition, those who are invested utterly in "speciesism" thanks Dr. Singer simply move the bar or redefine what "intelligence" is.
Pets 2010
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If, as isn't unlikely given his views on "speciesism", Dawkins rules out animal research on ethical grounds, then he doesn't see prevention of animal research as "destruction of research"; just as he wouldn't see an ethics committee's refusal to permit vivisection of a human as "destruction of research".
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"If, as isn't unlikely given his views on" speciesism ", Dawkins rules out animal research on ethical grounds"
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