Animals have value independent of their utility to humans.
Rights is about whether humans have the moral authority to use animals at all. Animals have value independent of their utility to humans
The most common objection to animal rights is the "practicality problem." What do we do with the billions of cows, pigs, and chickens that currently exist? If we ban slaughter overnight, we would face an ecological and starvation crisis. Rights advocates respond that this is a logistical transition problem, not a moral justification for killing. not a moral justification for killing.