We humans could not, however, be the beneficiaries of a policy that granted rights to non-human animals.
Incompetent humans are accorded rights because of a human concern for reciprocal altruism.
Granting rights to animals will not provide reciprocal benefits for humans. Therefore, animals cannot have rights. Now let's look at these premises more closely. I pointed out to Push that as a factual matter, most people simply did not see rights in that way. He then concludes that animals do not have rights.