speciesism
Speciesism is the belief or attitude that one species, typically humans, is superior to others and can exploit and mistreat them, based solely on their membership in a different species.
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Related Concepts (20)
- animal agriculture
- animal consciousness
- animal exploitation
- animal liberation
- animal rights
- animal testing
- animal welfare
- anthropocentrism
- cruelty-free products
- environmental ethics
- ethical treatment of animals
- intersectionality and speciesism
- moral considerability
- non-human animals
- sentience
- species discrimination
- species equality
- species hierarchy
- speciesist language
- veganism