What is Animal Rights?
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Formerly believed to be an idea in which animals should be equal to people, it is now widely recognized to be a belief where animals should receive higher consideration than humans.
Animal Rights means that humans are forbidden to hunt and/or eat animals, and are forbidden to use animals for ANY reason....
while animals are allowed to hunt and kill, as well as exploit other animals (ants exploiting aphids for their honeydew, for example).
Under this rule, animals are also allowed to kill a human for ANY reason (including, but not limited to: predator instinct, invasion of property, protection of young, etc.) while no human is allowed to kill an animal for any reason, not even to rescue his children from a bear attack.
When it comes to Animal Rights, George Orwell said it best in Animal Farm:
"All animals are equal but some are more equal than others."
The animal rights girl was against animal testing, so she killed a scientist. Meanwhile, she also let a serial killer run free, because he only killed humans...none of his targets were animals. Plus, he was a vegan!
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First of all, don't get me wrong i support 100% for the protection and proper treatment of all animals on this earth. But Seriously...rights for animals? Animal Rights are a joke, simply because if we gave animals rights, they would inherent moral responsibilities along with it, since animals are not intelligent enough and/or don't have the cognitive ability to understand what moral responsibilites are. Also becuase moral responsibilities are a phenomena developed for humans by humans and will NEVER exisit or apply to any other species. In essence if animals were given rights "they would go to animal jail for shiting and fucking all over the shiting fucking place" (Pen & Teller) also for killing each other and other animals. Think about it, do you think humans REALLY really beilieve they should be compared and/or held equally or higher to a dog that likes to use its tongue as toilet paper?
Also one more thing, PETA and ALF state that medical research and experiment should be banned and dont apply for humans.
Here is my response: Humans have lungs and a heart, dogs have lungs and a heart. 80%-90% of all medical research and knowledge has been made possible BECAUSE OF ANIMAL TESTING, IT IS A NECCESARY EVIL.
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A philosophy that suggests some or all animals have the right to possess their own lives. Contrary to popular opinion, animal rights activists do not ask for voting rights for chickens or pigs. Rather they ask that animals not be used for food, entertainment, medical research or clothing. Some activists maintain that there is a distinction between sentient, or self-aware animals, and those with a large degree of self-awareness are to be afforded the right to possess their own lives. Animal rights is also largely tied to dietary lifestyles such as
Animal rights movements are not the same as animal welfare which take into account, the suffering of animals (and seek to prohibit it) but do not grant them specific rights
The Great Ape Project is seen by many animal rights activists, to be a step towards granting other animals the fundamental rights such as the right to life, liberty and prohibition of torture
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Animal rights is a movement primarily dating back to the late 1800's.
Much like the civil rights movement, or the women’s liberation movement, the animal rights movement is a movement working towards the social recognition of the rights of all sentient creatures to live free from unnecessary human imposed suffering.
This often means that animal rights activists practice vegetarianism or veganism, NOT for ignorant reasons such as "humans shouldn't kill anything but all other animals can kill whatever they want to"...but rather, many animal rights activists realize that we, humans, are "omnivores" (this is a big word for some of you rednecks but bear with us) and as such, it is not *NECESSARY* to consume animal products. Since the consumption of animal products notoriously involves the immense suffering of the animals from which the products are derived, and since we are "omnivores", many animal rights activists are vegetarian or vegan.
The Animal Rights movement, again, like the Civil Rights and Women’s Liberation movement, is frequently criticized by ignorant and insecure individuals who are deathly afraid of any form of social change, or any “new fangled ideas” that might challenge their way of life (such as encouraging them to not wear fur, or not kick their dog). Animal Rights activists know that it might be hard for you to stop kicking your dog....but that still doesn’t make it OK to do it. You might not even WANT to stop kicking your dog...but...that still doesn’t make it OK for you to do it. Because quite frankly, your dog is a living creature that can feel pleasure and pain, and has a right to live free of unnecessary pain just like people do. That is why we have laws that uphold animal rights. For example, if you decide to violate your dog’s right to live free from unnecessary suffering and you kick him, you forfeit your right to live outside of a jail cell. If you believe that people should not kick their dog, then you believe in a bit of animal rights too.
Animal Rights: Albert Einstein was into it. Gandhi was into it. Abraham Lincoln was into it. Immanuel Kant was into it. Mark Twain was into it. Leonardo Da Vinci was into it. Dr. Albert Schweitzer was into it. Peter Singer wrote the book on it. Hell...even Moby is into it.
But red-necks and dog-kickers know better....and they are against it.
Too bad for them though...because social movements never go away...they only get stronger. Welcome to Animal Rights.
Sally: "Billy-bob stop kicking the dog!"
Billy-bob: "What-r-yall into? Animal rights? Are yous gonna
go kill a scientist and break stuff? Why yous
probaly a-thinkin' that we should all just eat
sticks an' mud ain-cha?"
Sally: "Wholly crap your ignorant Billy-bob."
Billy-bob: "Whuts an ignore ant? Does them bite?"
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
~Margaret Mead
US anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."
~Alice Walker
"And don't forget the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
~your mom
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The rights of animals. Humans, besides having superior intelligence to most animals, have nothing that sets them apart besides their need to wear clothes and cause global warming and genocide. Animals feel pain too, and each animal's life is worth just as much, no less and no more, than a human's life. Why are we better than them? We aren't. Sure, they have no "purpose" but neither do we. What's our purpose? To start wars and cut down trees? Give me a break.
Ignoramus- Animals have no rights. We're more important. Boo "animal rights"!
Me- Why are we more important?
Ignoramus- Errrr...duuuuh...
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The Majority of people are okay, but as with all organisations, has a few idiots. people who did up the dead relations of animal lab owners and the like.
Often take things too far, and can't see other peoples point of view, or that foxes are NOT, i repeat NOT cuddly little creatures!
Farmer:- I shot a fox the other day. it was killing my chickens, which are free range, and not for eating
animal rights activist:-you b@stard!!how could you kill cute little mr foxy-woxy!you'll burn in hell!!
Farmer:-???huh?
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They have the right to be tasty
Person 1: What are animal rights
Person 2: They have the right to be in my belly
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