Animal Person
JULY 3, 2009
" Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals ," By Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce, is the most recent (for me) book that debunks myths about the differences between human and nonhuman animals. Bekoff and Pierce "advocate a species-relative view of morality. Tags: Books Ethics Language.
Animal Person
APRIL 1, 2010
I think of "old speciesism" as analogous to racism and sexism in that it is exploitation based on species. Meanwhile, "new speciesism" is the notion that within a paradigm where rights are included for nonhuman animals, some are more deserving of rights than others for any of a variety of reasons (e.g.,
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