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HUMANE MYTH
GLOSSARY:
Speciesism



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 HUMANE MYTH GLOSSARY
Abolition
Animal advocacy
Animal husbandry
Animal protection
Animal rights
Animal welfare
Animal welfare industrial complex
Animal-using industries
Co-option
Commodification
Conflict of Interest
Conscience
Conscientious objection
Critical thinking
Cruelty-free
Disillusionment
Doctrine of necessary evil
Happy Meat
Hogwashing
Humane myth
Humane slaughter
Neocarnism
Non-participation and Non-cooperation
Non-violent social change
Open Rescue
Path of Conscience
Plant-based diet
Privilege of domination
Speciesism
Suffering
Sustainable
Utilitarianism
Values-based activism
Vegan
 






Speciesism

Speciesism (coined by British psychologist Richard Ryder in 1973) refers to an attitude of superiority or domination that is acted upon in a way that oppresses the members of a group--in this case, nonhuman animals. It would be considered speciesist, for example, to say that the desire for the taste of animal flesh is justification enough for humans to take the lives of other animals, who are viewed as having no inherent worth or reason for being beyond their use to humans. Speciesism, as with racism, often involves a failure to recognize that others have a right to such things as respect, bodily integrity, and freedom from confinement.