You think ppl will protect their ego while doing something horrible to you by saying o they are less than me. Now think about that with animals. U want all this equality but don?t pratice It?s no wonder we are where we are.
We are where we are because of capitalism and greed IMO. As long as expediency and profit is valued as highly as they are, animals are just objects/commodities and will never be accorded any of the rights that we accorded ourselves.
I'm confused as to the vegan stance. Do you feel sad and cry when an animal brutally kills another for food?
Do you think there is something 'wrong' with this?
If so you may be denying nature.
Do you get hard when you eat a steak?
I really suggest you don't ask stupid loaded questions if you are interested in having any sort of discussion.
What rights exactly do animals share with humans?
This is a difficult question. I don't actually think the concept of 'rights' is especially useful in any sense. People seem to think that rights are these objective things that we have discovered that are truths about the universe, but is it a coincidence that humans both discovered the concept of rights and the fact that we seem to have the most?
I think we could give animals any rights we desired, if we simply wanted to.
Wild animals deserve different rights to our domesticated slave animals. Wild animals should be free to excercise autonomy over their lives, and if anything, humans should simply step back and allow them to live. We should avoid destroying their habitat too.
Domestic animals deserve these most basic rights
at a minimum; the so-called "five freedoms":
Freedom from hunger and thirst
Freedom from discomfort
Freedom from pain, injury and disease
Freedom to express normal behaviour
Freedom from fear and distress
Given that most of these animals have been so thoroughly engineered, its unlikely that cows/chickens/goats/sheep/dogs/cats/etc. would ever survive in the wild and away from humans.
Okay, maybe cats.
Is iit ok if an animal is raised in a protected space on an ethical farm and slaughtered as humanely as possible?
Or do you feel that all animals must be free to roam as they place and to be brutally ripped apart by a predator?
False dilemma really. I'm sure there are more than two possible options for animals. For example, I'd prefer to see an animal die of old age than either of the two choices you present.
But I do not believe that it is possible for farm animals to be treated humanely under our greedy system, so I cannot say I support the idea. I don't think its possible. If all 7 billion humans wanted to eat humanely raised meat, we'd have to live on the Moon. Its not going to happen, so I tend to disregard it.