The document discusses the ethical arguments for animal rights, drawing parallels between racism and speciesism, highlighting the unethical treatment of animals and advocating for their freedom and basic needs. It criticizes various forms of animal abuse, including factory farming and exploitation, while promoting veganism and cruelty-free alternatives as solutions. The text also emphasizes the need for gradual abolition of all animal abuses and advocates for an equitable world for all sentient beings.

1. ANIMAL RIGHTS Line of argumentation based on ethical views

2. Overview: Racism – Speciesism Why Animal Rights? Practices of Speciesism Lawlessness of Animals today Debts of Antispeciesism Animal Rights for a more equitably world

3. Forms of discrimination

4. Racism: Speciesism: Unequal treatment of individuals based on their membership to different (humyn) races Unequal treatment of individuals based on their membership to different species

5. To avoid pain freedom (and liberty of action) to fulfil basic needs (to eat, to drink, to sleep, sexuality) Humyn interests: Slavery hurts in an intolerable dimension the personal interests of an humyn individual unethical

6. Animal interests: Imprisonment and other exploitation hurts in an intolerable dimension the personal interests of an animal individual unethical To avoid pain freedom (and liberty of action) to fulfil basic needs (to eat, to drink, to sleep, sexuality)

7. The principle of equality similar consideration of (nearly) similar interests independent from arbitrary fectors (sex, intelligence, race, religion, species,…) prerequisite: ability to feel pain/ to suffer

8. horse sports fishing hunting Trophäen sammeln poach persecution dog race breeding … . imprisonment dressage abuse pet stores slaughtering castration without anaesthesia Foie gras exploitation fur factory farming to sex chickens circusses zoo force sklavery bullfight dancing bear electrecution poisening Contergan overdose gluttony vivisektion Brain operations Animal Testing Sports Entertainment Pets Animal Farming Practices of speciesism

9. Examples of animal abuse

10. Chicken, ducks, geese

26. Bovines

32. „ Milk is rape.“

40. Pigs

56. Sheep

62. Pelzfarmen “ No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.” (Niemand auf der Welt braucht einen Nerzmantel – außer ein Nerz.) Unbekannt

64. Ich habe nur einen Pelz und an diesem hängt mein Leben.

66. Zoo/circus

71. Riding

75. Debt of Antispeciesism Right of all sentient beings to life , integrity and freedom (stepwise) abolishment of all forms of animal abuse veganism

76. Veganism = to avoid the consumption of animal products ( cruelty products, e.g.: corpses, milk/dairy, eggs, gelatine, „leather“, „fur“, eiderdowns, bristles, honey, silk, sheep whool,…) Instead of that: cruelty-free, plant (partly also synthetic) alternatives (e.g.: soy products, plant milk, cotton, microfibre,…) promotion of organic farming, fair trade products, second-hand-clothes, dumpster diving No support of abuse, exploitation, animal factory, violence, environmental destruction (…) advancement of ovo-lacto-vegetarianism/animal welfare/environmental protection

77. Sources „ Animal Liberation – die Befreiung der Tiere“, Peter Singer „ Vegan. Von der Ethik in der Ernährung und der Notwendigkeit eines Wandels“ Kath Clements pictures: soylent.network