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The Concept of Rights in Animals
The concept of rights is quite problematic. As a feminist, i certainly don't believe that in this country, or elsewhere in the world, women have rights within thatunited nations kind of sense. So extrapolating rights to other animals is tricky. There are ways in wh it can be useful. I was reminded of in reading an article recently by bariti galdicas, who's done all the work on orangitans. And she was pointing out that, as she did use the word rights, talking about the concept of of orangitans needing or having a right to living in the forest,. She argued that actually that then also affects the human communities who live in that part of