Favoring your own species by default is a prejudice too, Singer argued

Peter Singer coined 'speciesism' for the reflex assumption that human interests automatically outweigh animal interests, comparing it directly to racism and sexism. His principle of equal consideration of interests doesn't demand identical treatment for every species, but insists that comparable suffering deserves comparable moral weight, whoever or whatever feels it.

— Peter Singer, Animal Liberation — 1975
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