What is your opinion for animal rights?

Question

what are your thoughts for this? should they have more rights, or is it fine they way it is.

Answer 1

Animals do not have rights. For that very reason, they should be treated with respect because they are living creatures.  The only time an animal should be killed is for food or if they are suffering and cannot be helped.  And they should never be tortured or harmed for entertainment value (i.e. pit bull fights).  To be harmful or cruel to an animal is just as wrong as it is to be harmful or cruel to another human being.

Humans have right, yet we don't appreciate them.  We are arrogant and violent and yet the animals respect us as long as they don't feel threatened.  

Answer 2

I love animals this way; leave them alone, let them live where and how God made them and in their own habitat.

I hate zoos, for locking up animals, stupid pet stores who for love of money lock animals up, sell them, make stupid clothes for them, only to make more money exploiting them. Now some idiots are having "weddings" for their dogs. They have cemeteries and spas for dogs and cats.

They race dogs, skin helpless furry animals for furs to wear, and are evil when they to shoot them, trap them and force them to live in cages.

It is for love of money they do it.

I remember when I was a kid, a lion was in a tiny cage in the zoo in my hometown, it had barely enough room to turn its body to pace day and night. He spent all his life pacing back and forth and the city made money for people to see him. Sick.

They also took a polar bear and put him in a den with water and all day all he did was rock back and forth like an insane polar bear.

People who do this are in it for money and to make themselves believe the lie that they love animals, when in fact they are animal serial killers only they are so sneaky, it looks like they're animal lovers.

Respect animlas by leaving them alone!

Answer 3

I am still undecided on animals.

I have read both pro and con on the subject. The Princeton philosopher Peter Singer has some interesting thoughts on the subject, but I don't like where his utilitarian train of though eventually leads:

http://www.animal-rights-library.com/tex...

I would say one thing. I think that animals go through too much unnecessary pain and suffering in this world and much of that can be prevented.

I think that the people who look past the suffering are either inhumane or lack a conscience. Psychologists would call that psychopathy if it were applied to humans, but we have  mysteriously made the exception when it comes to members of other species. I think that animals are too biologically close to us for us to distance them entirely from our sense of compassion.

You'll also often find that a person's ethics is often reflected in how they treat animals. It has been shown that many infamous serial killers and cannibals often started out torturing small animals as children.

Can we still eat animals? I don't know. But, I do know that we're evolved to the point that it is not required.

Answer 4

I have a problem with the word rights because they are actually privileges. I think animals should be able to exist and share the Earth. It's we humans that are greedy and inhumane.  

Answer 5

Animals are beautiful and wonderful, but do not have "rights" as we understand them.  We as humans, at the top of the food and intelligence chain (we hope) are called to a  huge responsibility to care and provide for them with compassion, awe, and appreciation for all the gifts they provide us just by their existence - companionship, beauty, and as food.

While I have no problem with consuming animals as food, I have a huge problem with the unnecessarily inhumane way in which livestock are treating during their lives and during their slaughter.  (Don't get me started on the poison they feed them that ends up in our food supply - this includes farm-raised fish)  I have no problem with a skilled hunter pursuing deer, birds, etc., for the provision of his family, I do not however see waiting in a baited deer blind for a trophy buck to wander by as anything less than a celebration of one's own ego.  

So, to answer your question, animal "rights" are fine.   Human responsibility to the animals in their charge is what needs to change.  

Answer 6

Rights are something reserved for humans so many people with common sense automatically tune out the animal "Rights" activists as a result.

But deliberate torture is still torture even if it's an animal.

Answer 7

The way I look at it is, we created the problem with domestic animal overpopulation and we should have to take care of the problem. I do beleive in medical testing on animals, because it will do more harm than good. But I am, of course, not in favor of cosmetic testing. I am a vegetarian, not for ethical reasons but for more of the "ick factor" of eating flesh. I think it is natural for humans to eat flesh and there is nothign wrong with it. As for using animal skins for aesthetics, I feel it is something that is deploreable but also something that people will grow out of. Especially since fur coats are so widely reguarded with malice.