animal rights
Noun
Meaning
animal rights pl (plural only)
Certain fundamental rights that animals are entitled to, such as the right to be spared undue suffering.
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Examples
Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends of mine, people I have never discussed vegetarianism with, are adopting vegetarian habits because they see it.
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
I would never have become an animal rights advocate if I had not first been a human rights advocate, especially for those humans (the very young and the very old, for example) who lack the understanding or power to assert their rights for themselves.
I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.
In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.
I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.