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Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings.
The idea of awarding rights to animals has the support of legal scholars such as Alan Dershowitz and Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School. Steven Wise, also of Harvard Law School, argues that the first serious judicial challenges to what he calls the “legal thinghood” of animals may only be a few years away, while Toronto lawyer Clayton Ruby believes that the idea of animal rights has reached the stage the gay rights movement was at 25 years ago. Animal law is now taught in 104 out of 180 law schools in the United States, and in eight law schools in Canada. The concept of animal rights is routinely covered in universities as part of applied ethics or philosophy courses; Robert Garner of the University of Leicester calls it the “new morality.” In June 2008, Spain became the first country to introduce animal rights, when a cross-party parliamentary committee recommended that rights be extended to the great apes, in accordance with Peter Singer’s Great Ape Project.
Critics argue that animals are unable to enter into a social contract or make moral choices, and therefore cannot be regarded as possessors of rights, a position summed up by the philosopher Roger Scruton, who writes that only human beings have duties and that “[the] corollary is inescapable: we alone have rights.” An argument running parallel to this is that there is nothing inherently wrong with using animals as resources so long as they do not suffer unnecessarily, a view known as the animal welfare position. There has also been criticism, including from within the animal rights movement, of certain forms of animal rights activism, in particular the destruction of fur farms and animal laboratories by the Animal Liberation Front.
First show and First medal...Awesome Baali Keep it up. Next year you have to get "Best In Show"
First show and First medal...Awesome Baali Keep it up. Next year you have to get "Best In Show"
IKCI breed show on 17/May/09
Very few indigenous breeds left in India.. Raja is a pure indigenous breed. They are well adapted to Indian climate and hence, are resistant to most of diseases....Foreign breeds are not meant for our climates then.....
This is a video Starring Tara (The fawn colored labrador retriever), Prince ( The thinner copy of Tara) , Mike (The big black Rajapalayam) and Sam (The feisty Pug pup)...
