Hyderabad: According to famous philosopher Jeremy Bentham, “The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but, ‘Can they suffer?'” Speciesism is a common belief that some species, such as humans, are superior to others. This thought process allows humans across the world to prioritize human culture over everything else, and believe that ecosystems and other life forms within them should be destroyed to accommodate humans. To shun this idea of discrimination, animal activists and many others observe 'World Day Against Speciesism' across the world.
World Day Against Speciesism is a reminder to people that just like racism and sexism, speciesism also does not belong in a civilized society. Animal activists believe that people who consider kindness a virtue would not be fine with breeding animals just to consume them, experimenting on them, keeping them chained up or caged, or stripping them off their fur just because humans are superior to them.
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