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The Animal Rights Movement advocates that animals as subjects of a life (i.e., having a life of their own and their own story of life) also have interests that can only be adequately protected if they are considered as rights. Animals are then also said to be subjects of rights. The claim that animals have rights is quite recent. It was introduced, developed, and extensively advertised by the North American utilitarian philosopher Tom Regan in his work The Case for Animal Rights (1983).
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ten Have, H., Patrão Neves, M. (2021). Animal Rights (See Animal Ethics; Animal Research; Animal Welfare; Vegetarianism; Zoocentrism). In: Dictionary of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54161-3_56
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