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Singer is a Utilitarian and because of this he wants to reduce physical pain whenever he can in order to achieve pleasure. Singer talks about discriminations and how everyone fights to be equal and should be treated equally, but he wants to take it further and offer that same equality to outside of our species. This idea is known as speciesism. With that in mind he argues that people should take all beings’ feelings and sufferings into consideration. They should acknowledge when something is suffering and treat it equally by aiding it and keeping it from suffering more as any other human should do for another. He argues that speciests are no better than racists because they, like racists, consider their species to be better than the other species. A way that humans have this quality is by the fact that most humans only interact with other species for food. They treat them as only being a source of food and nothing more. Humans do not really need to eat meat because they can substitute other things into their diet to obtain the nutrients they need. Therefore he is saying that humans are killing and making animals suffer merely because they are speciests and consider the human species to be more valuable and important than the other species on this planet. Singer embraces the idea of vegetarianism and fights for animals to have equal rights along with humans.