Introduction
Animal rights are the protection of animals against suffering and promoting initiatives that are aimed at promoting or improving their wellbeing.
In the world, there are two kinds of ideology in regards to animal rights. There are those individuals who believe that animals should be protected while the other school of thought believes that animals should be given rights for their wellbeing. The animal rights campaigners want stronger legislation to be adopted in order to prevent the inhumane treatment of animals (Tracy, pg 4).
The animal rights advocates prohibit all the use of animals in any way; they strongly believe that animals should be treated as an end and not a means towards achieving an end. The animal rights advocates push for the ban on the current misuse of animals for example in zoos, hunting, scientific experiments, and so on.
The objectives and goals of the animal rights advocators and what they believe in has gained popularity in the United States of America and people are now aggressively prohibiting the various cruelty that some people have been doing to the animals and some people have suggested that enforcement of this prohibition would relieve the animals from cruelty and suffering that is currently being observed in various parts of the world.
Typical examples of animal suffering are dogs being caged for long hours each given day, those dogs which become old or can no longer hunt well are killed or sold cheaply to the laboratory for research purposes, and racehorses are useful when they can run fast enough and when they can longer run they end up being slaughtered.
There has been no stringent justification by any group of people to justify the perpetuation of cruelty that animals are subjected to. However, there have been numerous institutions that have been continuously committing the cruelty and violation of animal rights, despite their awareness all over the world even in the U.S.A about animal rights these institutions seem not to show any consciousness of their wrong deeds.
This scenario as it is lives no option about bringing consciousness to these institutions and groups of people but forcing them to stop the violation of animal rights.
What an animal right entails
The fact that each one of us acknowledges what lawful protection against suffering and harm means, then it defiantly implies that already all animals can also suffer and get subjected to harm.
The current animal rights movement started with the coming of Peter Singer’s distinctive book known as ‘Animal Liberation,’ which was published in the mid-1970s. Despite the coming up of the modern animal rights movement animals, right philosophy started a long time ago in history.
Although animal rights might appear foreign to many individuals since throughout animals have been abused and inhumanly killed for socially tolerable purposes. And the definition of what is socially satisfactory varies from one ethnicity to the next. The habit of consumption of dog meat is seen as decently insulting to some, but there is another group of people who would reject the consumption of cow meat. Given this kind of conflicting cultural food, animal consumption is a sign that the decent good reason for these uses and killings is embedded culturally, and has no basis on a constant moral position.
Singer the founder of the modern human rights movement made a precise comparison between discrimination of animals according to race and discrimination against animals according to the type of animal species (Singer, pg 37).
The individuals who practiced animal racism were seen to be violating the principle of equality of all animals by giving important honor and attention to animals that were members of his or her race than to others. The individuals who discriminated against animals according to their species tended to give more liking and care to a specific type of species of animals and disputed the other species.
For both historic and modern animal rights philosophical views of animal rights, the main important message which tends to dominate is that animals also have the capability of feeling pleasure and pain.
In the animal rights view, then having seen that animals can both suffer and feel pleasure it, therefore, offers no more justification to refuse to acknowledge the animal’s rights and protection against the cruelty subjected to these animals. although there are no signs or indicators to show when animals are suffering or feeling pain but the real fact is that human beings know what pain and suffering are, hence you can reflect this fact and attach it to the animals’ world, and then definitely someone can acknowledge when an animal is suffering or it is feeling pain. Hence the suffering and pain of animals should be considered in the same way human beings normally suffer (Tracy pg 8).
In the animal rights view, the prevailing concern is not whether animals suffer because of a certain animal use but whether people have the capacity of the obligation to make use of other sentient being for any function.
Goals of the animal rights movement
The major aims of the animal rights movement can be summarized in one sentence which is the pursuit to bring to an end the current specialist business which exists regarding serious consideration of the animal’s interests.
Animal Liberationists put their efforts into addressing the suffering and inhumane killings They do not, however, believe that regardless of how appealing and useful an animal is should not have anything to make animals suffer or be killed inhumanely.
Animal rights activists are concerned with the severity of the suffering, and the number of animals involved. So while animal liberationists always have been opposing all the unjustifiable exploitation of animals, they have laid more emphasis on the cruelty and violation of animal rights regarding animal experimentation and consumption of animals as food (Christopher, pg 6).
The Future of Animal rights
Those individuals who indulge in the acts of exploiting animals have now taken defensive. The researchers have got surprised by the gaining strength of the animal liberation that is currently taking roots, they have tried to counter this by enhancing their security interventions which is a very costly venture, and the expenditure on fences is presumably viable for research and this is what the animal rights activists are looking for. For the lovers of animal meat, their hopes are on the verge of not prevailing (Roy, pg 9).
The animal liberation movement has committed itself to fight to the last to see to it that the use of animals for meat is a thing of the past. However, there is still a bold concern on what course of direction will take. But the in thing is that there are visible signs that this crucial matter is gaining vigor and roots.
Conclusion
The formation of elaborate legislation banning cruelty and subjecting harm to animals will be really important in addressing this problem. Policies and bills which protect the animal’s rights should be introduced and the ones that exist to be enhanced, this seems to be the only option of ensuring that this phenomenon can be eliminated or at least contained once and for all.
Individuals can also put an effort of reducing or eliminating all the possible actions which contribute to the cruelty on animals and violation of their rights, this can yield more outcomes by more and more individuals getting involved in the global and local campaigns against animal cruelty and compromising of their rights (Robert, pg 3).
Work cited
Tracy, A. Overview of the animal rights Philosophy, New York: Broadview Press, 2003.
Christopher, G. What the Modern Animal Rights Movement advocates, Animal journal, 2007.
Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation, Random House, 1990.
Robert, G. Animal’s, politics and morality, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Roy, G. Rights and Interests: The Case against Animals, Clarendon Press, 1980.