Animal Rights

On the following pages we would like to inform you about animal rights. The claim for animal rights differs from animal concerns. The claim for animal rights reaches much further.

If you are reading this you are most probably an animal lover, maybe even an animal rights activist. In this case you can feel empathy for other creatures.

Please take a moment and look closer to the relation between human beings and animals. It can be a personal gain for you.

The one who deals with the question, if humans have to respect the needs of animals, will quickly understand the enormous ethical dimension of the claim for animal rights. Due to that reason the protagonists of the animal rights controversy are often to be found in the field of philosophy.

So there’s the theoretical discussion on the one hand. But on the other hand there are practical consequences of human-animal relationship. And first of all we have to focus on those. Each person who wants to develop a serious and founded opinion has to know the status quo.