(All animals gathered and decided to take up the 'Movement on Protecting
Animal Rights'. They passed a resolution to question the people who
exploit their rights. Write, what questions the representatives of Animal
Rights Society would ask people.)
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Animal rights is the idea in which some, or all, animals are entitled to the possession of their own existence and that their most basic interests—such as the need to avoid suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings.[2] That is, some species of animals have the right to be treated as the individuals they are, with their own desires and needs, rather than as an unfeeling property.[3]
23rd Tirthankara, Parshwanatha revived Jainism and ahimsa in the 9th century BC, which led to radical animal rights movement in South Asia.[1]
The ancient Tamil philosopher Valluvar, in his Tirukkural, taught ahimsa and moral vegetarianism as a personal virtue.
Its advocates oppose the assignment of moral value and fundamental protections on the basis of species membership alone—an idea known since 1970 as speciesism, when the term was coined by Richard D. Ryder—arguing that it is a prejudice as irrational as any other.[4] They maintain that animals should no longer be viewed as property or used as food, clothing, research subjects, entertainment, or beasts of burden.[5] Multiple cultural traditions around the world such as Jainism, Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism and Animism also espouse some forms of animal rights.
In parallel to the debate about moral rights, animal law is now widely taught in law schools in North America,[citation needed] and several legal scholars, such as Steven M. Wise and Gary L. Francione, support the extension of basic legal rights and personhood to non-human animals. The animals most often considered in arguments for personhood are hominids. This is supported by some animal rights academics because it would break through the species barrier, but opposed by others because it predicates moral value on mental complexity, rather than on sentience alone.[6] As of November 2019, 29 countries have currently enacted bans on hominoid experimentation, and Argentina has granted a captive orangutan basic human rights since 2014.