What is the problem with animal rights

Animals don’t have rights against other animals

For example, as Mary Warnock put it: May they [animals] be hunted? To this the answer is no, not by humans; but presumably their rights are not infringed if they are hunted by animals other than human beings. And here the real difficulties start.

Animals other than human beings do not have basic rights. It is a matter of ethics and not of the laws of human societies that animals ought to be treated compassionately and kindly by people — because people can empathize with their pain but not because they have rights as human beings do.

Animals suffer systemic and institutional domination and oppression. Therefore, animal rights is a social justice issue (P1–P5). Therefore, those committed to social justice must consider the interests of all sentient beings, not only those of human beings.

Since the 1970s a debate has arisen about whether animals have moral rights that should be recognized and protected by human society. … For example, if animals have a right to life, then it is wrong to eliminate them. If animals have a right to liberty, then it is wrong to hold them in captivity.

Why animal rights? … Rights are much more important than interests, because rights impose a burden on others that the other parties must accept. If animals do have rights then there are certain things that human beings should not do to animals, because doing them would violate the animal’s rights.

The Right to Life of Animals

With regard to Article 21, the Supreme Court notably held: Every species has a right to life and security, subject to the law of the land, which includes depriving its life, out of human necessity.