Is it right to prioritize human rights over animal rights?

It depends on your conception of self and the bounds of your empathy. Within humans, for many it is OK to strip the “enemy” of any rights and degrade and kill fellow humans. read more

When it comes to animal protection, yes we do try to protect it. However, protection of animals end where it starts to affect humans. That is the idea behind every exception in animal protection. Human entertainment is not more important than animal rights, but yes human rights is more important and it is right to prioritise over animal rights. read more

Animal Rights vs. Human Rights: Contractual Obfuscation Regardless of what PETA and the rest of the animal rights crowd says (more on this in a minute), no critter from aardvark to zebra is capable of understanding and honoring such contracts as the ones that guarantee citizens of democratic republics their rights. read more

Sometimes sincere people concerned with protecting innocent human life will express sentiments along these lines: "Animal rights advocates are eager to protect all kinds of animal life, but seem to ignore the most important animal of all, the human animal. read more