The purpose of this article is to answer the question: should non-human animals have rights? I firmly believe that non-human animals should be afforded rights, rights such as the right to freedom, the right to be treated with respect and care, and the right not to be exploited. Nonhuman animals are similar to humans in many ways and should not be subjected to the unsanitary and crowded living conditions that factory farming and other forms of mass production of nonhuman animals force them into. They have families they care for. females give birth to their children just like humans do. Many humans think they have an inferior position to non-human animals and inflict extreme suffering on them. I believe that non-human animals should be given rights. To begin, I will provide a brief description of what rights are, their functions and how we need them. The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines a right as including "a thing that can be legally or morally claimed; the state of being entitled to a privilege, immunity, or authority to act." Rights are things to which you are entitled or allowed, freedoms that are guaranteed are laws (for example) the Canadian Human Rights Act that guarantee equal opportunities and freedom from discrimination where people are protected and not put at a disadvantage simply because of theirs. age, sex, race, ethnicity, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability and a pardoned criminal conviction – as stated on the Canadian Human Rights Commission website was adopted by 'United Nations General Assembly in Paris in 1948 following World War II and hoped to bring equality to... middle of paper... human animals cannot speak English, and each species has its own "language" , there is no way to make him understand. If so, how would this work? To conclude this article, therefore, after examining the reasons why we oppose the assignment of rights to non-human animals. I'm still committed to the idea. There is no justification for the barbaric and callous ways we have treated non-human animals over the decades. As I stated before, they are living creatures just like us, they have families, emotions and struggles of their own without the ones we inflict on them. So where does this leave us? Of course it is a complicated issue, but nevertheless non-human animals should be protected with rights against their use as machines, for food, for their skin, their wool and in all cases where they are abused.