what is meant by the term ‘animal rights’?????
Please help
Really long essay to write on this!
The animal’s right to live a life where they are well taken care of, fed well, taken to the vet when they need it. The right not to be abused by people, not to be hurt, not to be left tight up outside, not to live in the cold or the heat, have plenty of food and water.
The animal’s right to live as a companion, without having to submit themselves to testing to benefit people and their sometimes ridiculous needs.
humans have rights to things like life, not to be tortured etc…..so do animals.
go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights
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Animal rights is the belief that animals should be treated with the respect that any living being deserves. There are levels of people who fight for animal rights, and levels to their beliefs as well. Some activists go so far as to believe that no animal should be a pet, or used for food or clothing. Others believe that animals deserve good food, safe shelter, and appropriate health care. You can check out PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals) for more information, or search the internet for animal rights groups.
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They have the same rights has us humans to a place to sleep,food,fresh water. They have included not to be over weight.My girl gets treated like the rest of the family has she is part of it.
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It’s basically the belief that animals are not ours to eat,wear,use for entertainment,or any other exploitive path.Basically that an animals desire to survive and be free from harm should not be interefed with by humans.
Animal rights persons will often refer to animals as "non-human animals" and refer to pets as "companian animals."
You can check out: http://peta.org/
But I feel this site is much better: http://animal-law.org/
You should watch this too
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GhxKnys7Ryw
If you need more help I can explain alot to you,I’m vegan which means I don’t eat or use any animal products,so i know alot about animal rights theories.
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Conscientious vegan
well the answer I got to this question .. well its kinda more of a definition… The rights to humane treatment claimed on behalf of animals, especially the right not to be exploited for human purposes.
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Animals, contrary to popular belief, are not meat puppets for us to play, kill and torture as long as we please.
If you watch any documentary, even the most cut up, and if you actually bother observing a mother cat with her kittens, or dog friends, you will se that all animals form deep emotional attachemnts, have feelings (baby elephants cry tears when separated from their mothers, and the most amazing capacity for love. Of humans, of any other being they become attached to.
This implies that, ethically, harming an animal is equivalent to harming a person. Do you have rights? A few. The right not to be shot down in the middle of your life, for one. Cows don’t have that right.
All animals are innocent, defenceless creatures, not less than babies and human children are. They are completely in our hands, they rely on us, their fellow earthlings, to be allowed an existence worthy of being lived, by being granted the few essentials they require: a suitable habitat in concordance with their natural instincts, suitable food and water, and the companionship of other animals of their same species, if appropriate, to provide social interaction and avoid loneliness.
Ghandi said "A nation’s advancement is determined by the way the nation treats its animals.". Some animal welfare bills have been passed, but we are a sight far from providing anything remotely fair for our animal friends, or acquantances.
In some countries its perfectly legal to roast cats on street corners. Animals living in these countries have no rights.
In most of the western world, this would be considered illegal. That’s some form of animal rights. But, on the other hand, circuses who beat animals senseless in order to make them perform silly tricks is legal, and so is unhealthy and cruel industrial farming, and pointless vivisection.
If you think animal experiments are necessary, consider the following:
* Less than 2% of human illnesses (1.16%, or 1 in 85) are ever seen in animals. Over 98% never are.
* At least 50 drugs on the market cause cancer in lab animals. They are allowed because it is admitted that animal tests are not relevant.
* When asked if they agreed that animal experimentation can be misleading because of anatomical and physiological differences between animals and humans, 88% of doctors agreed.
* Rats are 37% effective in identifying what causes cancer in humans. Flipping a coin would be more accurate.
* According to animal tests lemon juice is deadly poison, but arsenic, hemlock and botulin are safe.
* 40% of patients suffer side effects as a result of prescription treatment.
* Over 200,000 medicines have been released most of which are now withdrawn. According to the World Health Organisation, 240 medicines are essential.
* Thousands of drugs passed safe in animals have been withdrawn or banned due to their effect on human health.
* Aspirin fails animal tests, as do digitalis (heart drug), cancer treatments, insulin (causes animal birth defects), penicillin and other safe medicines. They would be banned if results from animal experimentation were accurate.
* When the producers of thalidomide were taken to court, they were aquitted after numerous experts agreed animal tests could not be relied on for human medicine.
* At least 450 methods exist with which we can replace animal experiments.
* Morphine puts humans asleep but excites cats.
* 95% of drugs passed by animal tests are immediately disgarded as useless or dangerous to humans.
Truth is, there’s a lot of cash to be made out of animals, one monkey for research costs around 700 pound, and they are caught in the wild for nothing! Every research centre needs about 300 at the time, all to be replaced continuously as they die of torture. You do the maths.
The capitalist system has no second thoughts in starving whole continents of people, (Africa for diamonds, tobacco and cocoa plantations, South America for bananas) you can imagine how much animals are kept into consideration.
Check the books below out from your library. They are written in an easy to follow way and
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Animal-Rights-Mark-Gold/dp/1897766165/ref=sr_1_5/203-7972295-6567961?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181580841&sr=1-5
http://animal-rights.com/arpage.htm
http://www.myspace.com/gallonbuttle -ask him anything!
http://www.animalliberationfront.com/News/AnimalPhotos/Animals_1-10/Animalphotos3.htm
http://www.animalliberationfront.com/News/AnimalPhotos/Animals_1-10/Dog-Mi-Lu.htm
http://www.animalliberationfront.com/News/AnimalPhotos/Animals_1-10/Tiger_piglets.htm
http://www.animalliberationfront.com/News/AnimalPhotos/Animals_1-10/Animalphotos8.htm
http://www.animalliberationfront.com/News/AnimalPhotos/Animals_11-20/fireman-dog.htm
http://www.animalliberationfront.com/News/AnimalPhotos/Animals_11-20/RhinoGoatBuddies.htm
http://www.animalliberationfront.com/News/AnimalPhotos/Animals_21-30/TomandDJ.htm
http://www.circuses.com/
http://www.stopanimaltests.com/f-pointcounterpoint.asp
The animal’s right to live a life where they are well taken care of, fed well, taken to the vet when they need it. The right not to be abused by people, not to be hurt, not to be left tight up outside, not to live in the cold or the heat, have plenty of food and water.
The animal’s right to live as a companion, without having to submit themselves to testing to benefit people and their sometimes ridiculous needs.
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There are many different levels of animal rights. It is completely different from animal welfare. Animal welfare is simply the belief that animals should be treated humanely. Animal rights is the belief that animals should both be treated humanely, AND should not be killed unless in deep pain.
The ASPCA is an animal welfare group. They write books to help support the happy lives of domestic dogs and cats. They do not care less about factory farms (where animals are bred by the millions for food) or animal testing laboratories.
PETA and the ALF (Animal Liberation Front) are extreme animal rights groups. PETA is by far the best animal rights group. That’s not opinion; that’s fact.
As for animal rights. Some people think it should only extend to pet dogs and cats, though that is really only animal welfare. Others believe that it should also extend to animals in testing labs, though most don’t know that many products are tested on animals. People like PETA believe that ALL animals should be liberated; people like me. This is a set of my basic beliefs:
1.) No animal should be raised and slaughtered for human consumption.
2.) Those animals killed for the consumption of companion animals should ALL be stunned first (including poultry, which are not covered by the Humane Slaughter Act), and workers should be certain that the animal is completely unconscious before slaughter.
3.) Animals raised to be killed for pet food should be free-range, ONLY.
4.) Milk and eggs should not be consumed, not even for pet food; animals are raised cruelly for these, and companion animals do not eat these animal products naturally.
5.) Animals are not to be turned into fur coats or leather coats, shoes, etc. etc. That is just retarded.
6.) We have no right to keep animals in zoos or circuses. This is for entertainment. Zoos may try to preserve species, but what have they done in the many years they have been in business?
7.) We have no right to breed animals as pets. This has resulted in the animal overpopulation crisis, and too many animals are killed every year because people insist on breeding them.
8.) All animal life–not including plants–is sacred. Bugs are only to be killed if they pose health hazards to animals (which INCLUDE HUMANS).
My beliefs are immensely complex and would take an entire book to list them all.
So, that’s what animal rights are. Good luck w/ your essay!
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I do not know where you are from, but please try to ignore the comments made by the ALF member below me. Animal rights involve the belief that animals have most if not all of the same rights given to people, including the right to live free from abuse and exploitation. I can set the record straight on a couple of other points of his, as well. Insulin DOES NOT cause birth defects in animals- it is a hormone which was discovered by USING animals ( in this case, the dog) as a model to study diabetes. Dogs get diabetes too, and they can die from it as readily and as easily as people can, which is what this ALF person isn’t saying anything about. Insulin’s discoverers, Dr.Sir Fredrick Banting and his research partner, Dr. Charles Best, did their work in Canada in the 1920′s, and their discovery earned them the Nobel Prize in medicine and worldwide fame. It also earned Banting a knighthood. The biggest beneficiaries of their discovery, however, are the millions of people who have diabetes and are able to live normal, healthy lives because of insulin. Prior to the hormone’s discovery, diabetes was a death sentence for anyone who had it- most people either died of infection or kidney failure, or they went blind from it- and with some, all 3 things happened. Today, it is a serious, but manageable condition that affects about 100 million Americans. Insulin is produced synthetically now, using recombiant DNA technology, and the product on the market today is 1000 times more pure than what was produced originally. This is a clear case in which dogs really did help save lives- millions of them- and to argue that the hormone’s discoverers were wrong to use them is just a reflection of the ALF’s ignorance of history.
There have been many other times when animals who were used for LEGITIMATE research have helped to save not only human lives, but their OWN lives as well. One of the reasons we are close to having an AIDS vaccine now is in part because researchers have used cats with FLV as their animal model. This has had benefits not only for us, but for the cats as well- we now have a very effective vaccine for FLV- something that didn’t exist prior to this research being done. FLV produces symptoms in cats that mimic those of HIV infection in people, which is why the cats that have the disease are used for research into treatments for it. Animal research is humane when it is done legitimately. The British have a very different system than we do here in the USA. Here, most of the really major work gets done at our colleges and universities, and is financed at least in part by government grants. These institutions have to treat the animals humanely, or they would lose their grant monies. Federal law prohibits mistreatment of lab animals used at places like Stanford University in California. It is usually the private labs that are the ones which do things like test cosmetics and hairsprays, and I agree, some of them are indeed cruel.
But I do not support the banning of legitimate research, because I have seen how many advances have come about as a result. Insulin, vaccines for things like tetanus, diptheria, smallpox, anthrax, cholera, and the flu have all come about because of animal research, as have treatments for cancer, AIDS, and even TB. We have hormone replacement drugs as well which came from animals- Premarin comes from horses. Even the EPT early pregnancy test, which millions of women use every year to detect pregnancy, was originally developed for use in thoroughbred broodmares on the big farms in Kentucky and Maryland. ( I have met the inventor of the original EPT test, so I know what I am talking about here. )
But back to what animal rights are. Animal rights are something that need to be respected and protected if possible- from abuse, from exploitation, and from cruelty. We need our animal friends- life on Earth would be impossible without them. But we also need to be good stewards and treat them ethically and humanely as much as possible. Hope this answers your questions, and gives you some food for thought.
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Horse and dog owner, animal lover, a horse professional.
http://www.animalethics.org.uk/aec-r-entries-rights.html
basic rights for animals, e.g. the right to live free from human-inflicted suffering
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above webpage and vet nurse
animal rights is about how humans are restricting animals from doing things and are killing animals for there meat or teeth. one example is whaling.The chinese make burgers out of them and eat them.and in japan they are killing horses and turning them into horse patties.and in the ocean people are catching sharks and cuttin off all of their fins whle they are still alive and then they throw them back into the water where they are left to die.Human rights is trying to stop poachers and people like asians who are killing for there own pleasure.
hope this has helped a little.
sarah
xoxo
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~Supporters of animal rights believe that animals matter as individuals; that they have their own value completely separate from how useful they are to us; and that every creature has a right to live free from pain and suffering. Animal rights is both a philosophy and a social movement that challenges society’s traditional view that all the other animals on this planet exist solely for human use. PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has said, “When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Each one values his or her life and fights the knife.” ~
Um, a quicker help for you would be "Why Animal Rights" on the peta2 website:
http://www.peta2.com/takecharge/t-whyAR.asp
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peta.org