Advocacy Animal Rights Ethics Species 
Animal Person
APRIL 1, 2010
I think of "old speciesism" as analogous to racism and sexism in that it is exploitation based on species. The advocacy component of old speciesism isn't the campaign to end that exploitation, however. No nonhuman alive today belongs to the same species as some ancestor of humans. Instead, it is the campaign to modify it.
Animal Person
JUNE 16, 2010
" Creature Quotes: Advancing Toward Freedom For All Species ," compiled and edited by SBH Clay, is now available. From the Introduction : "Humans are fascinated by animals. For all our devotion, though, we sometimes seem not to recognize the needs and wants of animals. Coetzee The Lives of Animals veganism. There is pain.
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