True. But what are animal rights? Aren't animal rights in the wild simply the way animals instinctively act under whatever circumstances they find themselves in, according to their nature? And in captivity, aren't animal rights completely subservient to their owners' authority in every way?
A merciful owner has mercy on his animals, and even love for them. If he eats them, he kills them swiftly so that they feel little pain.
If a society restricts its members from eating animals or treating their animal property how they want, it is a society of slavery among people. In a land of freedom, people have right to do with their animal property and other property as they desire. It is when people do NOT have freedom to do with their animal property what they want, that people are like animals before their society or government.
Since society and government are made up of people, what gives them the right to decide how other people should treat their own property?
That's exactly what I go by. Kill animals swiftly so you can eat them.
Disclaimer: Human beings are animals.
Humans are not animals. When you look in Genesis, you find that God created the animals, but that He made man in His own image, including breathing the breath of life into man. Man and animals, though similar in may ways so that they can inhabit the same planet, are different.
I was giving a biological definition