How Speciesism Allows for a Constant Animal Holocaust

When we speak of exploitation, holocaust and slaughter, we think of slavery, the five million Jews killed during the Nazis Holocaust, and the many casualties of war, but these numbers pale and are a minuscule fraction compared to the number of non-human animals that are killed daily as a disposable service and resource for humans; their death is invisible, their horror silent. The same facts that shock us become acceptable data, a justifiable commodity of modern living. These anthropocentric sets of moral codes we use to rationalize our actions do not hold upon examination, and consistently brings us face to face with our own intrinsic prejudices. What would you say if I told you that 100 million people were slaughtered today?†¦show more content†¦a prejudice or attitude of bias in favour of the interests of members of one’s’ own species and against those of members of other species (p.6) What these intellectuals and other anti-speciesist thinkers of their ti me had in common is the agreement that discrimination based on species membership and exploitation based on physical differences is not ethically or morally justifiable, because these principles are fundamentally the same as racism, sexism, and other membership founded prejudices. The arguments for speciesism cover a large span of human’s self interests. We are desensitized through culture, tradition, religion, and convenience, all of which propagate man’s dominion, and â€Å"supremacy† over all other sentient beings; similarly, Adolph Hitler’s claimed Germany’s superiority over other races and its God given destiny to rule the world and everyone in it.. The speciesist’s argument flips flops according to the context of the question. We are different. This concept is applied to the question of ethics and rights; by separating ourselves from non-human animals we can justify our actions, often used in reference to the morality of laboratory t esting, albeit, this brings up the question of the validity of such experiments. We are alike. Ironically, this also serves to