Joel Feinberg (1926-2004) on Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
JUNE 11, 2008
We can, of course, with consistency treat animals as mere pests and deny that they have any rights; for most animals, especially those of the lower orders, we have no choice but to do so. But it seems to me, nevertheless, that in general, animals are among the sorts of beings of whom rights can meaningfully be predicated and denied.
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