Animal Rights Papers

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“Animal rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another” (Greider). Animal rights are believed to belong to animals to live free from use in medical research, hunting, and other services to humans. There are approximately over 16,000 pets. Thats including fish, birds, reptiles, mice and many many more animals that live in the wild, and the animals that don’t live in the wild. Many people don’t believe in animal rights because, they don’t care about these animals and what happens to them. Everyday, animals are having to fight for their lives and for help from their community. This is why communities should come together as a team to help these poor animals. …show more content…

Animal rights are important because, animals are living their lives in fear because, almost everyday animals are being used for experiments. Unfortunately there are some animals that are strays, and they’re getting picked up and brought to the shelter. About 10,000 animals who enter shelters as strays, thankfully, they’re returned to their happy owner. Millions of pets are getting tossed home to home everyday. Pet problems are the main reason that owners rehome their animals. Accounting for 47% of rehomed dogs and 42% rehomed cats. Instead of rehoming animals there are a few ways to help their behavior problem. One way is to work with your pet or another way is to send them to dog training where they can be worked with everyday. However, human rights are different from animal rights. No one is asking for animals to have the same rights as humans. However, in an animal rights activists ideal world animals would have the right to live free of human use and exploitation. For example, a vegan world where animals are no longer used for food, clothing, or entertainment, while there is some debate as to what basic human rights are. According to the united nations universal declaration of human rights. Human rights include, the right to life, liberty, and security of a person. Consequently, animals have no declaration to rights, while humans do have declaration to

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