He holds the interests of all beings capable of suffering to be worthy of equal consideration and that giving lesser consideration to beings based on their species is no more justified than discrimination based on skin color. In Animal Liberation, Singer argues against what he calls speciesism: discrimination on the grounds that a being belongs to a certain species. Singer allows that animal rights are not the same as human rights, writing in Animal Liberation that "there are obviously important differences between humans and other animals, and these differences must give rise to some differences in the rights that each have." Ryder to describe the exploitative treatment of animals. He popularized the term " speciesism" in the book, which had been coined by Richard D. Following Jeremy Bentham, Singer argued that the interests of animals should be considered because of their ability to experience suffering and that the idea of rights was not necessary in order to consider them. Singer himself rejected the use of the theoretical framework of rights when it comes to human and nonhuman animals. It is widely considered within the animal liberation movement to be the founding philosophical statement of its ideas. Print ( Hardcover and Paperback) and eBookĪnimal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals is a 1975 book by Australian philosopher Peter Singer.
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