I based my vote on the fact that I have close to 0 doubt about the fact that antispecism is true (the fact that you can’t discriminate someone on the base of his specie). If you consider antispecism true, you have to take in consideration that humanity is a really small part of all animals living. Moreover, we have pretty good reasons to think that animals are living in worse conditions than humans (pretty obvious for farm animals that live in industrial farms, more challenging intuitively for wild animals but many studies make us things that suffering in wild animal is even a more important subect than farm animals). Therefore, if you accept these three premices: 1- Antispecism is true. (consensus in moral philosophy) 2- Other animals are in greater number than humans. (fact) 3- Other animals live in worse conditions than humans. (fact)
You arrive to the conclusion that it is more valuable to give to animal welfare funding than global health. The only argument I can see that can make change the balance is the fact that it is not possible/really hard to improve animal welfare but it looks like it is not the case.
I based my vote on the fact that I have close to 0 doubt about the fact that antispecism is true (the fact that you can’t discriminate someone on the base of his specie).
If you consider antispecism true, you have to take in consideration that humanity is a really small part of all animals living. Moreover, we have pretty good reasons to think that animals are living in worse conditions than humans (pretty obvious for farm animals that live in industrial farms, more challenging intuitively for wild animals but many studies make us things that suffering in wild animal is even a more important subect than farm animals).
Therefore, if you accept these three premices:
1- Antispecism is true. (consensus in moral philosophy)
2- Other animals are in greater number than humans. (fact)
3- Other animals live in worse conditions than humans. (fact)
You arrive to the conclusion that it is more valuable to give to animal welfare funding than global health.
The only argument I can see that can make change the balance is the fact that it is not possible/really hard to improve animal welfare but it looks like it is not the case.