species-based discrimination speciesism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism https://mamoura.eci.ufmg.br/tematres/vocab/index.php?tema=1096 A form of unjustified discrimination based on species membership. It involves treating members of one species as morally more important than members of other species even when their interests are equivalent. More precisely, speciesism is the failure to consider interests of equal strength to an equal extent because of the species of which the individuals have been classified as belonging to. species-ism speciesm specism Richard D. Ryder