They have vandalized or fire bombed meat companies, fur stores, fast-food restaurants, leather shops and medical research laboratories across North America. Its goal is the animalistic treatment of human beings. The terrorists are unmoved by the indisputable fact that animal research saves human lives. Rights are ethical principles applicable only to beings capable of reason and choice. The choice to think can be negated only by the use of physical force.
Rights protect men against the use of force by other men.
None of this is relevant to animals. They survive through inborn reflexes and sensory-perceptual association. They cannot reason. They cannot learn a code of ethics. To claim that man's use of animals is immoral is to claim that we have no right to our own lives and that we must sacrifice our welfare for the sake of creatures who cannot think or grasp the concept of morality.