Animal rights is a more radical, philosophical stance. It argues that animals, like humans, are —they have consciousness, desires, memory, and a sense of the future. Therefore, they possess inherent value and have fundamental rights, most notably the right not to be treated as property or a means to human ends.
Singer argues that because animals can feel pain (sentience), their interests should be given equal consideration. If an action causes more pain to an animal than pleasure to a human, it is unethical. Rights-Based View: Animal rights is a more radical, philosophical stance
(deontology) argue that animals have a moral status that makes it wrong for humans to use them as resources at all. Utilitarian View: Animal rights is a more radical