Animal Rights

Animal rights, animal liberation, or animal personhood, is the movement to protect non human animals from being used or regarded as property by humans. It is a radical social movement [4] insofar as it aims not only to attain more humane treatment for animals, which is the sole focus of animal welfare, but also to include species other than human beings within the moral community by giving their basic interests — for example, the interest in avoiding suffering — the same consideration as those of human beings. The claim is that animals should no longer be regarded legally or morally as property, or treated as resources for human purposes, but should instead be regarded as persons.
Animal law courses are now taught in 69 out of 180 United States law schools, and the idea of extending personhood to animals has the support of some senior legal scholars, including Alan Dershowitz and Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School.The Seattle-based Great Ape Project is campaigning for the United Nations to adopt a Declaration on Great Apes, which would see gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos included in a "community of equals" with human beings, extending to them the protection of three basic interests: the right to life, the protection of individual liberty, and the prohibition of torture. This is seen by an increasing number of animal rights lawyers as a first step toward granting rights to other animals.

every animal has a reason to live. so people have no right to harm them (this means plan

ts as well).