Animal Rights
Introduction
Animal rights mean that animals are entitled to be treated well in consideration of their best interest, irrespective of how they look or whether they are useful to the human. It means being able to know that animals should not be used by people for entertainment purpose, clothing, and experimentation. Animals are sentient creatures and have many important ways just like humans, and they feel pain, pleasure, learn, remember and experience emotions. What they feel and happens to them is very important to them. Animal’s right protects them from suffering unjustly. The paper analyses the types of the animal rights.
Animals are entitled to live free from human-induced pain such as hunger, thirst, fear, disease, and frustration. Animals suffer the same way the human beings suffer, and they feel pain, fear, frustration, loneliness, and pleasure. Whenever people do things that will interfere with animal needs, then they should know it is their responsibility to take the animals into account. Animals have the right to existence, good health, nutrition and proper home and their rights should not be exploited. Over the last years, people have been creating awful twinge, anguish, and demise upon animals due to different reasons such as their appearance and texture of their skin, games such as amusement in hunting for their flesh meat (Hile, 112).
Animals have the right to choose their lifestyle. Animals have been used in laboratories to do research, and thus their rights have been exploited. According to the rights of animals, they should not be used for testing as a specimen. This is because some of the outcomes can be dangerous or can lead to death. Animals have the right to live without their lives interfered with at any time. For example, people keep cats, dogs, and monkeys in their homes as pets and this is like holding the said animals’ captives in homes and not freeing them to do what they want (Waldau, 116). Like human beings, also animals needs to be allowed to live and do what they think or feel is good since they have senses as human beings.
Animals have right to life, and therefore people should stop killing them to get food and other human use. Individuals are not supposed to hunt animals for food at all cost and animals should not be used as a form of entertainment or tourism purpose where there are taken to zoos. This is argued that animals have the same fundamental rights as human rights and they are supposed to be treated with dignity and respect. Hence, animals are living creatures, and people should stop using them for entertainment or using them to achieve their needs. Animals also have the right to reproduce this will help to pass their genes to the next generation. Animals have the right to express their normal behavior such as searching for food, grooming and building nests (Linzey and Paul, 184). Also, animals have the right to equal consideration for their interest. People should stop inflicting pain on animals unnecessarily, and there are supposed to take the animal interest into account and treat them with respect.
In conclusion, animals are living creatures, and there are parts of our environment. They need love, food, and shelter and as responsible people, we should take care of the animals and make sure that they are protected from abuse and killings. Use of animals for testing, clothes, and experiment should be minimized. Also, the government should put strict laws to punish those people who harm and kills the animals without giving a reasonable justification for committing the crime. No one should kill any animal if it is not a threat to the community.
Work cited
Hile, Kevin. Animal Rights. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004. Internet resource.
Linzey, Andrew, and Paul A. B. Clarke. Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Internet resource.
Waldau, Paul. Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Print.
