The New Religion of Anti-Speciesism Values Animals Above Humans

A movement that aligns with the goals of Agenda 21 and the globalists.

Janet Levy | August 27, 2026

The Judeo-Christian ethos, often cited as the foundation of Western civilization and a core element of American identity, holds that humans are superior to animals. It holds that while animals act on instinct, we possess consciousness, a conscience, and free will to choose our actions and face the consequences.

While recognizing human superiority and hegemony, its moral code obligates us to treat animals with compassion. Animal rights activists do not think this is enough: they view the elevation of humans as speciesism, a form of discrimination as harmful as racism, sexism, or other biases.

British psychologist Richard Ryder coined the term, and Australian moral philosopher Peter Singer popularized it in his 1975 book Animal Liberation. Ryder believes that human exploitation of less intelligent species is fascist. Singer argues for species equality, contending that privileging humans is arbitrary and discriminatory because animals suffer pain as much as we do.

Species egalitarianism assigns the same moral weight to animals’ interests as to those of humans. The implications are that meat eating is morally wrong; saving animals is equal to saving humans; and ecosystems must be protected from human activity.

This preposterous ideology gained traction in the 1990s with the concept of “rewilding,” coined by Earth First! and contextualized by conservationists Michael Soulé and Reed Noss. Rewilding seeks to restore ecosystems by reintroducing large predators near human settlements and by creating wildlife corridors through those settlements.

To translate the ideology into action, Soulé and others founded the Wildlands Network (formerly the Wildlands Project) in 1991. It envisioned a network of “wildways,” or corridors connecting protected wildlife areas across the country. Wildlife would have the right of way. Maps on the network’s website show corridors for lions, wolves, bears, and other animals near........

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