Animal rights: 150 cattle calves’ hogs get slaughtered every yearMore than 9 million chickens’ turkeys ducks get slaughteredMore than2000 cases of animal crueltyThe main question:Humans have a full moral status, they deserve full moral considerationDo animals=humansAnimals can benefit humansAnimals are just animalsMaybe it is a good starts to ask what it is that gives humans full moral statusIn other words, like for trait T such that anything that has T deserves moral consideration: and anything that lacks T does not deserve the moral consideration.Pain is a trait that has moral relevance Human DNA Capacity to thinkLanguageSINGERIf being suffers, there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering (feel pain) into consideration. No matter what the nature of the human being…He introduced and popularized the term speisicismOutside academia he is well known for his book Animal Liberation, the touchtone of the animal liberation and involvement.Singer aims to find out what are the morally relevant differences that can justify different morally consideration.He tests the morally relevant difference to see If they explain why sexism, racism and ageism are wrong.The he tries to extend them to explain why speciesism is wrong.Singers main claim is that the principle of oral equality should be extended to nonhuman animalsPrinciple of equal consideration interestsEveryone’s interests are to be considered equally. What kinds of capacity is required for one to have interestsCapacity for suffering Equal treatmentNo. Different entities are different abilities, so they can have different rights.Singer is arguing that all sentient entities should be given equal moral considerationand that this could lead to different treatment and different rights.Baby vs dog in burning house….Baby of different races is wrongSinger says it is just as wrong to choose a god over a babySacrifice animals in order to minimize our
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