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The Theory of Animal Rights:Agriculture
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This presentation address’s just a couple of the reasons regarding
the theories around animal rights, and in no way represents a
absolute argument for the rights of animals. There are many other
compelling reasons to convert to a plant based diet, what follows is simply one of those reasons.
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Most people agree that it is morally wrong to inflict
unnecessary suffering and death to animals.
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But what is considered unnecessary suffering and pain?
Most people follow what our society says about this issue. Our society, and consequently
our laws dictate what is considered unnecessary
suffering and pain.
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For Example, our society condemns and punishes incidents
of “animal cruelty” such as dog fighting or microwaving cats.
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Dog Fighting
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Microwaving Cats
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Animal Agriculture, however accounts for over 98% of our societies use of animals. It is estimated that over 27 billion animals are brought into the
world and killed each year - in North America alone.
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This use of animal agriculture can be considered morally
unnecessary when one considers the following:
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Firstly, The Americans Dietic Association, and Dietitions of Canada
state that “…Vegetarian diets are healthful, nutrionally adequate, and
provide health benefits…”
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Dietians of Canada
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Also, entire nations have had religious vegetarians sustaining themselves off little or no animal
agriculture for thousands of years. Religious vegetarians consist of Hindu’s, Sikh’s, Buddhists and
Jains.
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Sikh Vegetarians
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Furthermore, many medical and health organizations such as the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine are advocating a vegan diet to reduce cancer, diabetes and a host of other
diseases.
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Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine
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Therefore, we can conclude that animal products are unnecessary. Once one has
established that animal products are unnecessary to sustain life, the arguments in
support of the continued use of animals agriculture cannot be taken in form of
necessities.
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Sentience of animals is one of the most key factors in the argument in
favour of animal rights.
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Sentience is defined as:
“the ability to experience pleasure and pain”.
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Pleasure
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Pain
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“The question is not, can they reason? Nor can they talk? But
can they suffer?”
- Jeremy Bentham
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“If a being suffers, then there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration....
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“No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that its
suffering be counted equally with the like suffering of another being”
- Peter Singer
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Recognizing Sentience is the first step in understanding the theory of animal rights.
However, it is not just the ability to feel pain that propels the theory of animal rights. The theory is morally supported by the natural
instincts of all animals.
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Firstly, all forms of sentient life seek freedom, and consequently liberation
from any oppressor. This is true in the case of human slavery, as well
as in the case of animal confinement.
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The degree of moral infringement of these comparisons is irrelevant. The
point remains however, that any captive being desires to live life on
their own accord.
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Live life on their own accord.
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All sentient beings have a natural desire for basic needs such as food, shelter
and reproduction. Animals desire food above all else so that they may continue
to live.
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They desire shelter so that they are kept save from predators. They desire
reproduction so that their species may continue to live on. All animals are
cognitive of these needs as they readily seek them out.
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Cognitive of these needs.
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If you accept that animal products are unnecessary to sustain human
life, and that animals do indeed suffer, then you already have a basic
understanding of this theory of animals rights.
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To further understand this theory of animal rights, one must look at the
arguments that are in favor of exploitative animal use, and why
these arguments are fundamentally flawed, mirroring arguments of
racism and sexism.
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One of the most prominent arguments in favour of animal agriculture use is that
animals are inferior to humans, and thus it is morally acceptable to treat them as
commodities.
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Treat them as commodities.
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Intelligence, however, is not a deciding factor when attributing moral consideration to a
being. Mentally delayed humans, who while admittedly are inferior in terms of intelligence, are given equal rights and consideration when it comes to the right to live free of pain, with a shortened life span and to live free of death.
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All mentally delayed humans and animals both share a want to live free
of pain, without death or suffering, because both have some degree of
sentience.
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They are more or less the same when viewed for intelligence; yet we
award one moral consideration, when we don’t give a thought to the other.
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We do not award moral consideration.
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It should be noted however, that it has only been in recent years that those with
mental disabilities have become accepted into society. They were once treated quite similarly to how animals in agriculture are
treated now.
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Another prominent argument is that eating animals is natural and that we’ve done it for
thousands of years. The word natural however, is nothing more than a label, and
is often used to defend operations that have been deemed immoral, but still operate
because it is of our “nature”.
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This argument has often been used to defend racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination or oppression. There have
been documented vegetarians for over 2000 years, proving that even if animal use for
agriculture was “natural”, it was not necessary.
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A Once “Natural” Practices.
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Another position defending the consumption of animal product is that they taste good. This argument has no sound moral standing; it is
the same argument that a proponent of slavery or sexism would use. It is enjoyable, profitable, but not a necessity for us to eat
animal flesh.
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It is enjoyable, profitable, but not a necessity for us to eat animal flesh.
Similarly, it is enjoyable, profitable, but not necessary for one to commit acts of
sexism, or for one to be a proponent of slavery.
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Make no mistake; the degree of moral infringement is not the matter to be
discussed here. The point is that all three of these actions satisfy the proponent, are completely unnecessary, and morally
abhorrent.
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No Moral Standing.
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Animal Agriculture is first and foremost an unnecessary practice. On top of the
above moral arguments, animal agriculture contributes to many other
massive worldwide problems.
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Supporting animal rights isn’t an arduous or impossible task. By cutting out portions of
animal products out of ones diet, and slowly reverting to a Vegan diet one can start to be the voice for the voiceless, and end animal
suffering and death.
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“Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and
in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgements using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organism, particularly when we are not forced to by hunger or dietary need, but rather
do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat?”
- Dr. Peter Cheek