Question 15: Do animals have rights?

            People who thinks animals do not have rights says “If animals were to have rights, do you think they would choose to be experimented on or not for medicine purposes? Also if animals have rights, won’t everyone have to become vegetarians? Animals are not willing to sacrifice themselves to satisfy the human race’s stomachs. Besides, we cannot even communicate with animals.”

            People who thinks animals have rights says “Animals' rights are violated when they are used in research. They have a basic moral right to respectful treatment. Animals and people are alike in many ways; they both feel, think, behave, and experience pain. So animals should be treated with the same respect as humans. Therefore, animal experimentation should be stopped because it violates the rights of animals.”

Citation

Debate.org http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-animals-have-rights

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