What gives animals the right to be treated as equally as human beings are, when they arent able to do half the things humans are capable of doing? Most will agree with the opinions that animals should not have as many rights as humans, while others may feel that since animals are living creatures and are some way connected to human beings, they should be treated just as fairly as we are.
I believe that animals should not have as many rights. Edwin A. Locke who wrote an article for the InterlectualConservitive.com named "Animal "Rights" Versus Human Rights believes that animals should not have as many rights as humans because for one, they survive through sensory- perceptual association and the pleasure-pain mechanism which cannot reason. Unlike human beings who are survive on rational thoughts. According to many individuals it is said to be believed that animals are looked upon as property which may be the reason why people do not see why animals should have the same rights as human beings. There are many things that animals are not able to do which makes it difficult to give an animal the same rights as human beings because they cannot show emotion or any kind of feeling to express how they are feeling. No one is able to completely understand animals but at the same time we use animals as a way of survival. If it weren't for the body of animals many humans wouldn't be able to survive. We use them in our everyday lives and if they had equal rights as humans there would be much chaos within our food chain and people would be put in much desperate positions.
Although some animals are needed for human nutrition, animal cruelty is something I am totally against of. Some people believe that it doesn’t matter how you kill the animal, because it will eventually die. However, I believe that if we are killing an animal to feed ourselves, at least we should show a little bit of respect towards them hence they are being sacrificed for the sake of our nutrition, therefore people should use a method that wouldn’t cause them pain. I have seen videos of how they kill cows and chickens, and it is the most heartbreaking and cruel video I have ever seen. This is why I think that animals should have certain rights, because they are being sacrificed so that we can feed ourselves.
Many groups and organizations disapprove of any type of animal mistreatment, cruelty or even the digestion of any meats. The most popular organization that represents animal rights and stands against animal cruetly is PETA which stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. This organization focuses mostly on animals in factory farms, in the clothing trade, in laboratories and animals in the entertainment industry.
PETA not only disagrees with the mistreatment of animals, but do not support any use of animal skins or foods. Their organization has proudly used campaigns with slogans such as "Id rather go naked than wear fur." Not only are are their campaigns and billboards taking notice to meat lovers and factory farms, but also graphic footage of how an animal is terribly beaten, skinned and killed just to make a coat. not only does PETA try to raise awareness of the way we treat the animals around us, they also believe that we should support animals by becoming either vegetarian or vegan because if you're not, you're killing a living creature who has needs only to satisfy your needs.
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Intro
Paragraph 1- Difference between rational human thoughts and irrational animal thoughts.
Paragraph 2- Animals are part of our nutrition
Paragraph 3- PETA
