The "rights" of animals (4)

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Tibor R. Machan: The Myth of Animal Rights
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In the concern about how human beings treat animals, whether as pets, as prospective nourishment, or for medical research or experimentation, one school has proposed the idea that animals have rights like human beings do .. , while another school has proposed that the well being of animals should be considered in a utilitarian assessment .. I aim to argue here that the concept of "rights" has not be shown to apply to animals in anything like the way it applies to human beings ..