Animal “rights” are to ensure other living creatures have the right to decent care, clean and healthy living environments, no abuse, and to have the “right” to BE what they as they are.
A chicken has the “right” to BE a chicken and live accordingly to how chickens live. Room to move around, range about, scratch and be part of a flock of their peers.
Cows have a “right” to be cows, to graze on grass, roam about unconfined, and be cows.
Other animals such as horses have a “right” to not be worked to death and properly cared for.
We are stewards of this planet and it;s beings and everything should have a “right” to live a comfortable and cruelty free life, even if it ends up on your plate eventually.
ALL LIFE forms have just as much “right” to be here and live according to their species life plan. I am proud to say that I have cared for many animals in my life and feel honored to give a creature a caring and comfortable life.
Here at our ranch our horses have excellent feed and supplements, are blanketed during the winter, have their stalls cleaned daily with fresh bedding as do our ducks and geese.
Sevral of our birds are old and have mobility issues and we medicate them daily with pain relievers as is the right thing to do as responsible animal stewards. The cats and dog live
comfortably indoors most of the time and nothing here is treated in an unethical manner.
I am not militant about anything but absolutely beleive that all life forms deserve decent treatment and even insects and other “lesser” creatures should not be randomly killed just because you are bigger than they are. I happen to always save whatever I can, whenever I can, short of a rattlesnake on the porch, and even then, as long as it is not a threat to the other animals and humans here it has a valuable job to do and we leave it alone.
The other day I was raking up the last of some hay in the barn to make room for a new stack of bales and raked up a beautiful large Garter snakes that was all cozied up buried in the hay. He stayed, I even made him/her a new hay cave so it can stay warm during the winter and catch the mice and rats in the barn. All life forms deserve respect and should be allowed to BE, period unless they are posing a major threat, such as 500 mice in your house.
The hallmark of a fairly enlightened human is to take seriously their stewardship and respect of diverse life forms.