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I strongly object to the term "speciesism" for this position. I think it promotes a mindkilled attitude to this subject ("Oh, you don't want to be speciesist, do you? Are you also a sexist? You pig?").
Maybe I was already mindkilled (vegetarian speaking), but it seems like a precisely appropriate term to use, given the content of this post.
What term would you prefer?
[Bonus points: if racism and speciesism were well-known errors of the past, would sexist!you object to the term "sexism" on the same grounds?]
Humanism, maybe. Yes.
That's taken, though ... but then it's been taken before, and repurposed, it's such a catchy word with such lovely connotations.