All beings that feel pain deserve human rights
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1543755,00.html

Equality of the species is the logical conclusion of post-Darwin
morality

Richard Ryder
Saturday August 6, 2005
The Guardian

The word speciesism came to me while I was lying in a bath in Oxford
some 35 years ago. It was like racism or sexism - a prejudice based
upon morally irrelevant physical differences. Since Darwin we have
known we are human animals related to all the other animals through
evolution; how, then, can we justify our almost total oppression of all
the other species? All animal species can suffer pain and distress.
Animals scream and writhe like us; their nervous systems are similar
and contain the same biochemicals that we know are associated with the
experience of pain in ourselves.

All beings that feel pain deserve human rights
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1543755,00.html

Equality of the species is the logical conclusion of post-Darwin
morality

Richard Ryder
Saturday August 6, 2005
The Guardian

The word speciesism came to me while I was lying in a bath in Oxford
some 35 years ago. It was like racism or sexism - a prejudice based
upon morally irrelevant physical differences. Since Darwin we have
known we are human animals related to all the other animals through
evolution; how, then, can we justify our almost total oppression of all
the other species? All animal species can suffer pain and distress.
Animals scream and writhe like us; their nervous systems are similar
and contain the same biochemicals that we know are associated with the
experience of pain in ourselves.

Richard Ryder
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