A topic within Applied Ethics, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Peter Singer
Argues that the capacity to suffer, not species membership, is what entitles a being's interests to equal moral consideration, so a preference for human interests over equal animal suffering is arbitrary in the same way racism and sexism are.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Philip Low, Jaak Panksepp, Diana Reiss, David Edelman, Bruno Van Swinderen & Christof Koch
A group of neuroscientists declares that the neurological substrates generating consciousness are not uniquely human, so many non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, possess the neurological capacity for conscious states.
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