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ANIMAL RIGHTS
Is it morally wrong to eat meat?

The movement for animal rights, which is also known as animal liberation, is the concept that the basic interests of animals should be regarded with an equal eye as with humans. It promotes the fact that animal should not be treated as public property, traded or be made a part of any business transaction, but they should be treated as legal persons, with their own rights. According to the Utilitarianism view, right is what will promote the greatest possible happiness of the greatest possible number happiness.
There are many questions that arise as a result of the views presented by different philosophers. One of the questions that arise is "Is it morally wrong to eat meat?" The case for animal rights has been advocated by Peter Singer who maintains that there is a difference between the rights of human beings and animals but that the later should be given equal consideration and......

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