Explain What Is Meant By Animal Rights

There is much disagreement as to whether non-human animals have rights, and what is meant by animal rights. People have had a huge disagreement about that if animals not humans then should they or should they not have human rights. Growing up I have always been taught that if we have animals even if they are used for food we should treat them as if they are family. Some animals are used for food yes others are not used for food and in this paper I am going to discuss; do human beings have any obligations to animals in terms of their treatment. If it is wrong to treat animals cruelly, why is it not wrong to eat them? I am going to explain if and how I think humans can find a balance between treating animals ethically while also raising them for food and other reasons, such as the testing of pharmaceuticals. Humans and animals have a unique relationship to each other. They can be companions to one another and be treated with great respect. They can also be beaten and slaughtered without any shred of remorse. Every single living thing on earth is deserving of respect according to the view of wholism. Animals, humans, and plants are all part of nature, and must live in harmony with each other. (Krasemann, 2015) If we have obligations to animals it is because when we hear or see an animal in pain we recognize that we have an obligation to help that animal

Humans have been destroying animals for food. (Krasemann, 2015) A major contributing factor to people eating meats is the natural order of things. (Johnson, 2015) . Being human to animals and eating animals go hand and hand. You would not chop a chicken’s foot off and watch it bleed out slowly, you would chop the chickens head off to kill it right away. I feel that it is okay to eat meat as long as you are not cruel or human in the process of killing that animal. Killing and eating animals is a part of biology. (Patry,