Animal Rights. BBC News. BBC, 2014. Web. 27 Sept.

2015
This article has many different sections to get all of their points across. They are as
follows: Animal rights, the case for animal rights, the case against animal rights, Animals arent
moral, Moral community, fundamental rights, and the problem of marginal people. This
article that about the disagreement as to whether non-human animal rights, and what is meant by
animal rights. Philosophers have usually avoided arguing that all non-human animals have rights
because the consequences are so limiting for humanity and it would give rights to creatures that
are so simple that the idea of them having rights seems to defy common sense. The fight for
animal rights come from three different ideas. One is that human animals have rights, then there
is no morally relevant difference between human animals and adult mammals and therefore adult
mammals must have rights too.
I like that this article debates both sides of the argument. I think one of the things that is
confusing about this article is that you, as the reader, have to decide what a non-human animal is
and what an adult mammal is. I think that some of the points that they try to make get lost on
translation because this is written by BBC which is British and they use different terms than we
are used to. I do like that they go into depth though about what animal rights are.

What Are Animal Rights? WiseGEEK. Conjuncture Coporation, 2003-2015. Web. 27 Sept.
2015

The term animal rights refers to any action or belief regarding non-human creatures that a
person or society sees as proper, moral or legal. People often use the term in reference to the
movement toward protecting all living things from human exploitation and abuse. This
movement supports the idea that all animals are to be treated humanely and spared from pain,
suffering or murder. These ideas gained popularity starting in the 19th century, and modern
groups such as PETA keep them in the contemporary spotlight. The ideals behind the movement
are the source of periodic conflicts but have support in many well-known celebrities.
I think that this is a very good website because it clearly defines what animal rights are. It
discusses how they came to be, compares the rights to animal welfare, and gives us the history. It
also lets us know what the conflicts are that have to deal with animal rights. And then it gives us
examples of the people who are trying to help the cause. I really like how its all divided up into
categories.

PETA. Why Animal Rights? PETA. PETA, 2015 Web, 28 Sept 2015
People often ask if animals should have rights, and quite simply, the answer is Yes!
Animals surely deserve to live their lives free from suffering and exploitation. Jeremy Bentham,
the founder of the reforming utilitarian school of moral philosophy, stated that when deciding on
a beings rights, The question is not Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but Can they
suffer? In that passage, Bentham points to the capacity for suffering as the vital characteristic
that gives a being the right to equal consideration. The capacity for suffering is not just another
characteristic like the capacity for language or higher mathematics. All animals have the ability
to suffer in the same way and to the same degree that humans do. They feel pain, pleasure, fear,
frustration, loneliness, and motherly love. Whenever we consider doing something that would
interfere with their needs, we are morally obligated to take them into account.
I think that this is a great source because it talks about what exactly animal rights are.
And I think that it is fantastic that this was written by a group that is all about keeping animal
rights and advocating that all of us should do that same thing.

Lin, Doris. What Are Animal Rights? About News. About.com, 2015. Web. 28 Sept. 2015
Animal rights is the belief that animals have a right to be free of human use and
exploitation, but there is a great deal of confusion about what that means. Animal rights is not
about putting animals above humans, or giving animals the same rights as humans. Also, animal
rights is very different from animal welfare. This article also talks about freedom from human
use and exploitation.
I like this article because it gives a clear definition of what animal are and I think that that
will be the basis of this paper. I also like how it shows the interaction between humans and
animals and what is happening in that world.

Lin, Doris. What Rights Should Animals Have, and Why? About News. About.com, 2015.
Web. 28 Sept. 2015
People often say that they love animals and that they consider their pets to be part of the
family, but draw the line at animal rights. Isn't it enough that we treat them humanely? Why
should animals have rights? What rights should animals have? How are those rights different
from human rights? This article talks about why animals have rights. It also talks about what
rights they should have as well as how those rights differ from the rights of humans.
I think that it is very effective that this article basically is talking from the point of view
of the animal. This is literally just a random sentence in all of this because Im pretty sure that
you dont read this. I could be completely wrong though, so if I am, please forgive me.It explains
why they have rights and why they should be followed. Some people might ask why animals
have rights, but I could easily ask you why humans have rights. We are all living and breathing
creatures and just because animals do not speak our language, dont mean that they dont have
one of their own.

Scully, Matthew. Pro-Life, Pro-Animal. National Review Online. N.p., 7 Oct. 2013. Web. 28
Sept. 2015.
Animals have a moral dignity of their own, a point that nearly everyone, including even
some people in cruel industries, will happily concede in unthreatening contexts that is, when
were not talking about actually doing something to protect animals and respect their dignity.
There are moral truths concerning them, too that are just as binding and absolute as any other, if
we believe in moral truth at all.
This article gives a TON of information. But no real way of dissecting all of it. I think
that it is kind of hard to understand and it loses the readers attention because of the length of the
article. There are some positive things about it. Because of the length of the article, that mens
that there is a lot of information and that can be very useful when maybe writing a thesis paper
but since I am only writing one that is four pages I dont know if I will actually use this aricle. I
might steal some stuff from it.