The Pain Principle: What if the animal rights movement abandoned its focus on suffering and appealed to a different set of human emotions? – ANIMAL RIGHTS WATCH

The Pain Principle: What if the animal rights movement abandoned its focus on suffering and appealed to a different set of human emotions?

MATTHEW DENTON-EDMUNDSON: In Animal Liberation, Peter Singer argues that racism and sexism and what he calls “speciesism” all rely on arbitrary distinctions… He contends that in a few short decades, when the next generation (or the next) looks back on our treatment of animals, the practice may well be viewed in much the same way … Continue reading The Pain Principle: What if the animal rights movement abandoned its focus on suffering and appealed to a different set of human emotions?