Animal Rights

Rights
According to Wenar “Rights are entitlement to perform certain actions or to be
certain states: or entitlement others perform certain actions or be in certain state.” There
are many rights in several field such as right to vote, right to work and right to do some
performance. Normally, children’s rights, worker rights, right for the people are most
common among people all around the world. Animal rights are moral principles based on
the belief that voiceless living creatures, animals, deserve the ability to live as they wish,
have rights to be free from human use and testing in cosmetics (Lin, 2021).
Nowadays, animals have being widely used to accommodate the needs of human
beings, in making commodities, especially furry coats and leather jackets, and food
production. So, why animals need to have rights? Animals, although they can’t speak, they
are voiceless, it doesn’t mean that they don’t have emotions, pain, and fears. Nevertheless,
they are abused and are killed fiercely.

Factory farming
Factory farming (cows, fish, chicken, pigs) is a method of breeding and producing a
range of farmed animals for the need of food to people with a minimizing space and
minimizing costs. Animals are the one that have lives but in factory farming animal are
treated as non-living things. The nature of animal is that they live in the place where is
suitable for them, with their own groups of species and freely as they went. But in factory
farming they are slaughtered in small with no window and crowded space at early age and
abused by the human.
Chicken are more abused animals than any other land animals in our planet. Every
year, millions of eggs are hatched in the industry by unusual method. After hatching state,
the chick is moved into cages and are fed to go quickly and to lay eggs in brief time by large
machines directly to their beak more than the amount they need. The result of it is that
their legs and organs cannot keep up and they start suffering from heart attacks. Moreover,
they become aggressive and fight towards each other because of the size of these tiny cages,
cannot even spread their wings, and stress. Despite of giving them more wide space the
factory cut their beaks called ‘beak conditioning’ to solve that problem. They get chronic
pain and fear and are killed by electrical water baths or gas to stun before being killed
(Roberson, 2022).
Likewise, pigs, fish, and cow factory farming methods are nearly the same with
chicken or more pitiless. In animal testing, mostly rabbit, they are injected chemical that
use in food and cosmetic we used. Injected chemical into their bodies slightly destroy their
gut, liver, and other essential organs for them gradually and painfully. The animals are
sacrificed to make products safer for human use and consumption . Like humans and other
animals, they want to live. This desire for life is the reason they lift their head, making
noise and the tear and helpless eyes are the evidence.
Animal abuses, factory farming, animal testing is obviously increased. From 2018 to
2021 in Singapore, animal cruelty and abuse rose ranging from 2,490 to 3,025 (Anon., 2022).
This highlights that we still need to try hardly to have rights for animals and require to have
“voice for the voiceless.”
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