The Journal of Ethics 29 (3). 2025In the animal ethics literature, speciesism is defined in all sorts of manners. It is construed as a behaviour or a philosophical view, as necessarily anthropocentric or possibly centred on other species, as involving the idea that species membership is morally significant or compatible with the rejection of that idea, as necessarily immoral or possibly ethically acceptable. Up to a point, this variety is unobjectionable. We are at liberty to stipulate the sen