Animal rights extend to all sentient beings from "summary" of Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
The idea that animal rights should extend to all sentient beings is a radical notion that challenges the conventional wisdom about the moral status of animals. Sentience, the capacity to experience pleasure and pain, is the criterion that should be used to determine which beings deserve moral consideration. This principle is based on the recognition that all sentient beings have an interest in avoiding suffering and enjoying their lives. By extending animal rights to all sentient beings, we are acknowledging that non-human animals are not fundamentally different from humans in their capacity to suffer. This means that practices such as factory farming, in whic...
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