Animal Rights

Animal Rights

Priscilla Peterman

University of Phoenix

Com/156

Instructor James Christanson

This research paper is going to discuss a major concern with the issue of animal rights and how people view this serious issue. Animals deserve rights, and these rights should annihilate the many problems with animal abuse, abandonment, and animal experimentation. Animals deserve the same rights as humans.

In our society, it is under law for all people have basic rights under the declaration of

human rights. As stated, this only benefits humans, where as humans rule the world. So then where do the rights of animals come into play? For there are many people do not understand the rights of animals and how we should treat them equally and why. Through many years of animal research and experimentations, humans are getting the benefit and gains in the inhumane ways the animals are being treated; the poor animals are suffering through much pain and distress, even though they too have moral status and rights.

A right is a certain way of protecting interests, basically to say that an interest is protected by a right, is to say that interest is protected from being ignored or violated simply because this will benefit someone else. So what are the animal rights? Animal rights is the concept that animals have the same rights as humans, to live a life free of suffrage, just as important as people, and with the same moral status as humans. According to Doris Lin, an animal rights attorney and the Vice President of Legal Affairs, “They have a right to be free of oppression, confinement, use and abuse by humans.” But rights are not absolute in that their protection has no exception. David DeGrazia, the author of many scholarly animal rights books dealing with ethical and philosophical issues concerning animals, explained that animal rights might not be familiar to...