Animal_Rights

Animal Rights Animal Rights Can animals think and deliberate in their actions, or are they just acting on impulses' Do animals suffer, or are their brains so underdeveloped that they lack that feeling' Do animals even have rights' According to national laws, these questions have to be answered by each individual. Each of us has to select a set of principles of ethical conduct. A small rural farmer may name his livestock and treat his livestock with kindness and dignity. A huge corporate farmer would probably answer ‘no’ to those same questions. He may treat his livestock as machinery and nothing more. If one animal does not work correctly, he may replace it with an animal that does (Scully 191-192). Both farmers were born and raised in America, yet they view animals’ rights very differently. Getting people to care about the degree to which animals are suffering needlessly is difficult. We need to have compassion and raise the question of ethics for the other beings with which we share this world. Some arguments against animal testing, hunting, animal farming, and other ways humans treat animals are very good. Unfortunately, legislators appear to be unwilling to take action for the animals that animals, animal, dolphins, one, calves, about, rights, pigs, life, each, very, treat, out, need, livestock, large, killed, just, fate, day, cannot, yet, ways, water, view, treated, small, shore, same, living, lives, humans, food, farmers, dolphin