Went through a few pages - it's quite weak argumentation, to just state without support that animals don't have rights or that they historically have them, when it's trivial to show laws on the book giving animals rights or looking up trials in which animals were involved, especially historically.
Edit0: it's also very weak in that it doesn't name the rights that are to be "pushed by activists", simple things like the right to life and the right to freedom (cannot be sequestered), which have little to do with animals capacities.
Edit1: This philosopher is also against contraception and fights against it, for the rights of sperm and egg it seems.
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What a surprise to see antispeciesism show up here!
David S. Oderberg, "The Illusion of Animal Rights"[0].
[0] https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7SKlRTfkUiecnJuOWpJSzFOaDg/...
Went through a few pages - it's quite weak argumentation, to just state without support that animals don't have rights or that they historically have them, when it's trivial to show laws on the book giving animals rights or looking up trials in which animals were involved, especially historically.
Edit0: it's also very weak in that it doesn't name the rights that are to be "pushed by activists", simple things like the right to life and the right to freedom (cannot be sequestered), which have little to do with animals capacities.
Edit1: This philosopher is also against contraception and fights against it, for the rights of sperm and egg it seems.