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Essay Archive - A Discussion on Animal Rights
A Discussion on Animal Rights
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; The Declaration of
Independence holds these rights to be self evident and unalienable. In the
eighteenth century when these words were written they were called natural rights,
today we call them human rights" (McShea 34). The issue of whether or not to
grant animal rights such as those that humans retain, is a greatly disputed
issue. Philosophers, clergyman, and politicians have argued the point of animal
rights for years, but without success. Animal right is an extremel....
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