📝Speciesism

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§ Cognitive Bias

Humans treat different animals differently according to their species.

Examples:

• Pets (cats, dogs) are treated much better than general animals.
• Cattle, chicken are treated badly
• Fish is largely not considered (it’s a good food)
• Insects are ignored
• Sacred animals?
• Animal testing
• Hunting
• Lab rats
• Scavengers are seen as lowly animals
• Human Supremacy is the ultimate Speciesism.

Why?

• Speciesism is a justification for abusing animals. (See Reasoning is self-biased)
• Animals that we can exploit are treated worse.
• If animal is hard to exploit (not valuable) they are treated better (unless they get in our way).
• Aesthetics/size