The Concept of Rights and Eating Meat

In this chapter, they discuss different ways of thinking about the issue of eating meat, particularly in terms of rights. They explore the idea that rights are only given to beings that are rational or will one day become rational, which would mean that animals like chickens do not have rights. They also question the assumptions that only humans have rights and that the only way to act wrongly is by violating a right. They consider the implausibility of the idea that our moral treatment of animals doesn't matter, and raise questions about the threshold of rationality for having rights.