According to the web site www.wordiq.com, "Animal rights is the viewpoint that animals have rights and are worthy of ethical consideration in how human beings interact with them" (1). The issue of animal rights is fraught with controversy. This is primarily due to the fact that when people try to assess whether something is right or wrong, they generally do so in view of their own self-interest. Since animals can be used to serve man's self-interest, they are always in danger of having their rights sublimated to man's desires. In fact, animals do have rights. However, not all of their rights have been signed into law. Therefore, it is necessary to differentiate between legal rights and moral or ethical rights. Since there are activities that are legal but not right, and conversely, those that a
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