WHY ANIMAL RIGHTS

Many of you grew up eating meat and chicken, wearing leather and fur, and going to circuses and zoos. Many of you have kept beautiful birds in cages. Many of you wear silk, go have a chicken burger and fished. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. Why? Because many don’t think that animals also have rights.

Why this question asked:

Why should animals have rights?The first and foremost thing that every human being should understand is that they don’t own this earth. He made the earth in his own way by buildings and roads for his use but that doesn’t mean that the land they build upon is theirs. What about the animals living over there?

This earth belongs to everyone which includes all animals.Like humans, animals also have a right to live. Because, they are the same as us, just with a lower brain capacity than humans; preventing them from rational thinking and ruling this earth!!! But they have a complete sensory nervous system allowing them to be aware and communicative. They feel pain, pleasure, fear, frustration, loneliness, and motherly love. Should the more intelligent humans have rights and the less intelligent humans be denied rights? If that is not so, then why are animals denied their rights?

Animals have certain rights. For instance, a dog most certainly would not like having pain inflicted on him unnecessarily. We are, therefore, obliged to take that interest into consideration and to respect the dog’s right not to have pain unnecessarily inflicted upon him.Jeremy Bentham, the founder of the reforming utilitarian school of moral philosophy, stated that when deciding on a being’s rights, “The question is not ‘Can they reason?’ nor ‘Can they talk?’ but ‘Can they suffer?’ ”.

Animals surely deserve to live their lives free from suffering and exploitation."Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight." -Rev. Dr Andrew Linzey 1952What we are taught by parents and teachers is to be good citizens, nice, kind, helpful to others. Well, now the famous quote goes as follows:"

As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."Only after understanding that animals too have rights to live their lives free from suffering and pain done by humans, then only we can understand the pain given to animals and join hands to stop this merciless torture.