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Essay / Animals Have Rights Too - 493
Most human beings are inherently speciesist; meaning they believe one species is superior to another. (Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2009. 6. Print.) It can be argued that this is only an expansion of the difficulties of human equality, and just as we were once desensitized with respect to other races or sexes, we now do the same with animals. Plus, we don't think much about what's going on beyond our own little bubble. We don't care how our food got there; we just want it. We don't care if our cleaning products or makeup have been tested on animals, as long as it works. Animal rights advocates assert that the capacity to feel pain is the designation of moral value; and that although humans have the capacity to be self-aware, to be able to plan and...