Animal Ethics

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3 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Animal Ethics.

• Animal exploitation — The use of nonhuman animals primarily as resources, labor or instruments in ways that subordinate their interests and may impose confinement, harm or deprivation.
• Animal protectionism — An animal-ethics position pursuing stronger protection and incremental reform while allowing that some regulated human uses of animals may remain permissible.
• Speciesism — Differential moral consideration or treatment based on species membership, often criticized as an unjustified bias favoring human interests over comparable interests of other animals.