“…First, animals play a relevant role in the social lives of humans, for example, as pets, entertainment, equipment, or consumption (Alves & Barboza, 2018). Adults are strongly speciesist; this has been corroborated by research (Caviola et al, 2019; and statistics illustrating that people exploit billions of animals each year for food, materials, and entertainment (e.g., Rustemovich, 2017). But what is the nature of speciesism?…”