​​​​​What is Animal Rights?
The philosophy of animal rights says that all animals are unique individuals who, like us, experience life. This means we all have a valid claim to basic moral rights – both humans and our fellow animals.

• Animal rights is an extension of human rights theory
• The focus is on moral rights (not legal rights)
• Experiencing life means having interests
• A right is a way of protecting an interest
• Breeding, using, displacing, or killing someone is a ​violation of their rights

It could also be said that animal rights all comes down to one key right, the right to be respected.

A summary of animal rights could be:
“An individual’s basic moral right to be respected and to not be bred, used, or murdered.”