do animals have rights or should we eat them?

Question

we would like some vegetarian and animal rights related responses with cited articles to support your claims. ty :]

Answer 1

They have rights AND we should eat them.

Answer 2

The answer is both.

Animals are protected (as they should be) from those who would cause them pain and suffering for their own twisted pleasure. They are also protected (as they should be) from those who take on the responsibility for their upkeep but fail to provide them with the basics like food, water, and a living arrangement that is not directly hazardous to their health.

As far as eating them goes, the reality is that humans are omnivores and are at the top of the food chain. Eating an animal does not equal animal cruelty, it is simply participation in the order of nature.

Answer 3

Does an animal have free will or a soul? No. We are the top of the food chain--the dominant animal. We have just as much right to meat as a lion does. Do you think a lion will debate eating a human?

Answer 4

Just to clear it up what Agent said, the reason people got sick at Chi Chi's in 2003 is due to a Hepatitis A virus found in their vegetable salsa. So according to your theory, people soon won't be eating vegetables.

Of course it is fine to eat animals. Animals eat animals. There is nothing even remotely wrong about it.

Answer 5

Animals only have rights if humans give them to them. I think we should certainly treat everything with respect, even if we are going to eat it which I am not. The only article I can site it my cup of tea on this coaster right in front of me.

Answer 6

We are at the top of the food chain. What makes us any different than other predators that kill animals for food? Besides we raise our farm animals to provide food. It's not like they are going to be extinct. Nothing anybody can say or do that will keep me from throwing a steak on my grill.

Answer 7

PETA
people for the ethcial treatment of animals
or
people eating tasty animals

you decide

some animal rights activists treat animals better than other humans and that is wrong

Answer 8

All beings with rights have duties to each other, and to those without rights. Does a cow have a duty to a human?
The duty that humans have to animals is to care for them and treat them humanely. While you could argue that certain animals used for food are treated inhumanely, to say it is not right to eat them is completely missing the point.

Answer 9

If animals had rights, then how would you punish the other animals who eat animals? Are you going to put a lion in prison for chowing down on a zebra?

Answer 10

Animals have rights, but we should still eat them. Look at the old testament and how the jews handled the slaughter of animals for food. The animals were not allowed to suffer. They had to be killed "with one stroke". That's quite mindful of an animal's right not to suffer. However, biologically speaking we should eat them. Our digestive tract is made to digest meat as well as vegetables. Look at your teeth, for example. Just go ask your dentist.

Answer 11

I'm a meat eater. But, I don't think it's right to torture, harm, or kill an animal for fun or for sport.

You are supposed to eat what you catch/kill. If you don't plan on eating dog or cat, then don't kill a dog or cat. Get the picture?

Only kill the animals that are for food (cows, pigs, chickens, fish) and don't play with them or torture them before hand!

This is my opinion.

Cheers