Should animals have more rights?

[SHEEPY]

omg arrest dat man!!1

[Dupion]

omg arrest dat man!!1

lmao +rep when i can

[RosieIsHot]

wellllll my cat is really gonna come up to me and say ' rosie lhahah i fink we should have rights cuz we are living things no what im saying den it would probs say get me a drink and id be like no get it urself!!!1 then we would end up avin a fight i would win obv. so then id get dun for like killing ma cat' so no rly dont be stupid m8 !!

[RedStratocas]

Maybe because the death rate of the animals killed by the tsunami wasn't as high as the human one? I'm only guessing.

Tsunamis hit the coat, highly populated. You dont often go to a highly populated area and see as many animals as humans.

[Largo]

There aint as many animals as humans.

You can compare them both, such as for every 1 animal, there is so so humans ..

[Mentor]

Post your thoughts below.

I have an uncertain belief.

Humans rule too much, we think we are really clever.

Yet animals are also clever yet don't get much say in things, apparently they knew in advance on 26 dec 2004 about the tsunami

Yet do humans have developed social skills and large knowledge of tehcnology and many more things, that overpower all knowledge that animals have?

Depends how you define clever, Humans are the only consluse animal hence we have the rights, We have intelagine.

NO other animal on earth does, there just instrinctal reflexs, no intelgence involved "/

[Jesus-Egg]

Animals should have rights... the right to be eaten

[Timewarp]

Shouldnt eat them pigs are highly intelligent and my dog nos when its sunday every sunday he follows me around because he goes for a walk with 2 other dogs

[FlyingJesus]

Animals eat animals. Dupion throughout this has been saying that we're equal and as one with the animals or whatever, so therefore we are animals, and so have a perfect right to eat other animals as part of the food chain. What happens when you take away a predator? The prey increases massively and cause imbalances in their surroundings. Everything is affected when the food chain is broken or impaired.

The main reason to not eat meat seems to be the moral issue of it, not wanting to inflict pain. Tell me, how do we know when an animal is in pain? They react, due to the nerves being touched in such a way that causes the animal to believe they are in danger. Instinctively they try to move away and move noise (as a defense mechanism - warning), so how do we know that they are actually in pain like we experience? They aren't as developed as us, their brains may not be able to handle more than simple instinct, and so they will react by instinct alone without really knowing why. Our ancestors (Neanderthals and such) were less worried by pain, their brains had not developed enough to realise it. I'm not saying they don't feel pain as a certainty, but it's possible that animals do not actually feel it as anything other than an instinct.

[Toes]

Well I think people that treat dogs like people are absaloutly mad! Spending £500+ on a dog a year is plain stupid.