- animal rights
- noun plural Date: 1879 rights (as to fair and humane treatment) regarded as belonging fundamentally to all animals • animal rightist noun
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animal rights — The view that animals have rights, for instance to decent treatment, is more controversial than the view that we ought to behave decently towards them. This is because to some thinkers the notion of a right involves the ability to make a claim… … Philosophy dictionary
animal rights — noun Animal rights is used before these nouns: ↑protester … Collocations dictionary
