Humane Legislation Morals Protection 
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value. As a consequence, “people should treat all creatures decently, and protect them from cruelty, avoidable suffering, and unnecessary killing.”
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.” In the United States, most believe that gaining personhood is much more probable through legislative enactment than through a constitutional change.
Animal Ethics
JULY 14, 2012
The legal rights individuals have arise as the result of the creative activity of human beings. The concept of moral rights differs in important ways from that of legal rights. The concept of moral rights differs in important ways from that of legal rights. First, moral rights, if there are any, are universal.
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