His own personal ethics, yes, they call it "speciesism". From Wordnik.com. [Dawkins, Hussein, and ALF] Reference
In Animal Liberation, Singer argues against what he calls speciesism: discrimination on the grounds that a being belongs to a certain species. From Wordnik.com. [rabble.ca - News for the rest of us] Reference
Yet animal wrongs activists stress "speciesism" and other idiocies. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Why Killing Lab Rats Is Good] Reference
Denying rights to animals is "speciesism," he says, a prejudice resembling racism. From Wordnik.com. [Monkey Business] Reference
"If, as isn't unlikely given his views on" speciesism ", Dawkins rules out animal research on ethical grounds". From Wordnik.com. [Dawkins, Hussein, and ALF] Reference
This kind of speciesism may well be on fairly sound factual grounds when it says that species is a very good indicator of the capacity relevant for moral consideration. From Wordnik.com. [Are All Animals Equal?] Reference
Many hedonists, such as such a view in his concepts of 'speciesism'. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
It is perhaps best described as a kind of speciesism, rather than racism. From Wordnik.com. [MyAntiwar.org] Reference
OpEdNews - Article: He who says speciesism says fascism. From Wordnik.com. [He who says speciesism says fascism-] Reference
I look upon speciesism as going the way of all the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Pacifism or Animals: Which Do You Love More?] Reference
One wants to avoid speciesism, the moral disease of being species-centric. From Wordnik.com. [U.K. Pets Get 'Freedoms'] Reference
I think the upcoming film D-9 seems to have a lot to do with "speciesism.". From Wordnik.com. [Current Affairs] Reference
Singer opposes “speciesism,” the belief that humans are ethically privileged. From Wordnik.com. [Experiencing the Next World Now] Reference
Maybe because it was such a universal expression of racism, or speciesism, or whatever. From Wordnik.com. [Massage] Reference
Undoubtedly speciesism lays behind some (most?) of the resistance to such an experiment. From Wordnik.com. [Dawkins Still MIA] Reference
He's also an avid animal rights advocate, accusing humans um, that's us of "speciesism.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
So he should feed his children to the army ants, or else face the charge of "speciesism.". From Wordnik.com. [Questioning "dignity."] Reference
Never do you hear solutions to speciesism, let alone acknowledgment of speciesist problems. From Wordnik.com. [Today's blogging has a theme... I see.] Reference
Where we still struggle with racism, the people on Enterprise still struggle with speciesism. From Wordnik.com. [Another reason to get this car...] Reference
Could it be... that we will someday come to regard speciesism as an evil comparable to racism?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
The idea, of course, is that this will somehow lead people to think critically about speciesism. From Wordnik.com. [IT’S NOT A FISH, IT’S A SEA KITTEN » Sociological Images] Reference
We need to go after speciesism and dominionism as tenaciously as we do racism, classism, and patriarchy. From Wordnik.com. [Direct Action, Liberation and the Need to Persist] Reference
Vlasak simply says what many are thinking or what logic dictates apart from the constraints of speciesism. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Afraid of Jerry Vlasak?] Reference
OpEdNews - Article: The absurd persistence of domination: Of speciesism, capitalism, and shaking their foundations. From Wordnik.com. [The absurd persistence of domination: Of speciesism, capitalism, and shaking their foundations] Reference
This is why we have offshoots such as eco-feminism, which broaches the topics of speciesism and the climate change. From Wordnik.com. [What does feminism mean for you? « Gender Across Borders] Reference
Anthropocentrism and its malevolent spawn, speciesism, are also demons that dwell deep within the collective human psyche. From Wordnik.com. [We've become our own predators".] Reference
Those who claim that the lives of animals are of little or no importance reflect the deep-seated speciesism of our society. From Wordnik.com. [Against The Current] Reference
The withholding of this right from the nonhuman animals based on their species membership is referred to as “speciesism”. From Wordnik.com. [No Meat is Murder! « Tai-Chi Policy] Reference
There goes my respect for any potentially progressiveness she may have been trying to instill with the whole speciesism thing. From Wordnik.com. [a very unsatisfying answer « Love | Peace | Ohana] Reference
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld,because -- what with trolls and dwarfs and so on -- speciesism was more interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Discworld thoughts] Reference
Of course, every animal species practices “speciesism,” putting the survival of its own species above the survival of any other. From Wordnik.com. [Are All Animals Equal?] Reference
Of course, there are plenty of trolls and dwarfs for Pterry to talk about real-world racism with, by drawing parallels to speciesism. From Wordnik.com. [Discworld thoughts] Reference
Check out this article, in which he criticizes the bigotry of speciesism that prevents the cross-breeding of a human and a chimpanzee. From Wordnik.com. [Dawkins Still MIA] Reference
Most moral codes simply come down to speciesism (or nationalism, tribalism, or other in-groupism) which is a hard thing to rationalize. From Wordnik.com. [Defending Your Existence] Reference
Note how our terminology avoids sexism, speciesism, and even Earth-centrism. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference
Capitalism and speciesism are woven into most of the world's cultural and socioeconomic DNA. From Wordnik.com. [Countercurrents.org] Reference
As radical scholars or activists, we face the daunting task of exterminating capitalism and speciesism. From Wordnik.com. [Countercurrents.org] Reference
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