H. B. Acton (1908-1974) on Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 23, 2009
When it is asked whether animals have rights, and whether human beings have duties to them, the question, I think, is partly moral and partly verbal. It is this latter view, I believe, that is in the minds of some of those who deny that animals have rights. Yet writers on jurisprudence say that animals do not have legal rights.
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