Analyses
Animal Equality and Speciesism
We reproduce the first two (short) chapters of an essay written by Peter Singer in 1985, wich summarizes the ideas of animal equality and speciesism.
Essentials
Antispeciesism: a political movement
Antispeciesism is a political position. It must therefore be constituted as a movement that pursues political goals; Since its goals are political, its strategy must be political as well; If successful, this movement could be the beginning of a radically different future for all sentient individuals.
Videos
Homo Herbivorus
Homo herbivorus is a documentary film made in 2018 : Through discussions with actors and thinkers in animal ethics, it explores our relationship to animal exploitation.
Strategies
Cultural struggle, cultural change
The importance of a collective struggle has to be emphasized, because the focus on individual acts should not take precedence over the struggle at hand.
Strategies
On ‘purity’
The importance of a collective struggle has to be emphasized, because the focus on individual acts should not take precedence over the struggle at hand.
Analyses
What is Speciesism?
This article develops a deep explanation of the implications of speciesism, mentioning the concept of nature as one of its “ideological” pillars and showing the weak support of each of its arguments. An inaugural text of the French-speaking antispeciesist movement.
Analyses
Animals storming heaven
What the antispeciesist revolution would bring to progressive endeavors? What fundamental, civilizational changes would it bring?
Meat
Meat Abolition, or the Closing down of All Slaughterhouses
We must now work explicitly towards the banning of the production and consumption of animal flesh. It is both a necessary measure, and one possible to obtain without waiting for a revolution in the way of thinking or the organisation of our societies.