Animal Rights For Animals Legislation Protection 
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 30, 2012
In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.” Half of the sixteen German states already have some sort of animal rights provisions in their constitutions.
Animal Ethics
JULY 14, 2012
Third, moral rights, unlike legal rights, do not arise as a result of the creative acts of any one individual (e.g., a legislative assembly). Theoretically, one could, it is true, create legal rights that accord with or protect moral rights, but that is not the same as creating these moral rights in the first place.
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