SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer, Part Deux
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.
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