Psychologist Richard Ryder coined the term “speciesism” in 1971, referring to a prejudice in favor of the interests of humans and against other species. He called the assumption that humans are in a totally different moral category than other species “sheer superstition” and concluded that “it may come to pass that enlightened minds may one day abhor ‘speciesism’ as much as they now detest ‘racism’. The illogicality in both forms of prejudice is of an identical sort.” Peter Singer made the concept the heart of his seminal work Animal Liberation.
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Animal Liberation. Are Human Lives the Same as Cows? (July 6, 2023)
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