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Singer, P. (1989). All animals are equal. In T. Regan & P. Singer (Eds.), Animal rights and human obligations (pp. 148-162). New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Retrieved from http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/phil1200,Spr07/...
Singer argues that eating meat is speciesism because it involves sacrificing the most important interests of members of other species for relatively trivial interests of our own species. Does he have a point here? Is there any reason that you can give why our preference for meat dishes is more important than an animal’s interest in not being killed (and raised in captivity)?
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Significant Figures in Islamic Faith - Outline
Thesis Statement: Campaigns on the rights of animals have been rising in the recent past but
have clearly not achieved much. Human beings should understand that we share the world with
so many other beings that deserve better than what we have been doing to them.
I) The Speciesism Aspect in Eating Meat
II) Why It is Wrong to Subject Animals to Suffering
III) How More Disastrous Than Advantageous Animal Agriculture is
Running head: IS EATING MEAT SPECIESISM?
Is Eating Meat Speciesism?
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IS EATING MEAT SPECIESISM?
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Is Eating Meat Speciesism?
Singer really has a point when he says that eating meat is speciesism. Different groups of
human beings have fought against discrimination and oppression by others because they were
feeling the pain and suffering. The oppressors at the time were causing the subjects suffering for
selfish interes...
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