Essay #73 "Animal Rights" 31.03.18 Animal rights have become a hot topic in recent decades. It has divided people into those who think that using animals to satisfy their need is quite natural and those who think that animals should have the same rights as humans. In my opinion, treating animals as equal to humans is not a good idea that could be harmful for our society. First of all, animals are used not only for food and making leather or fur clothes. They are used in chemical, medical, technological and other spheres, and without them many discoveries could not be made. So even if people do not eat meat they definitely make use of animals in some other ways. Also, employing animals as food source is quite natural for people and we have been doing it for many centuries. As humans are carnivores it is quite a strange idea to give up eating meat and radically change our diet. People who think the opposite base their opinion on excessive cruelty against animals on farms and in use of experimental research in laboratories. They believe that all this is abuse of helpless animals and by giving more rights to them we could change the situation. Moreover, another reason is that people now are tending to have more animals as pets and they have become highly attached to them, so this makes them consider such things as unfair when employing and using animals just to satisfy human’ needs. To conclude, people are omnivores who have been exploiting animals throughout all their history and trying to change this situation is not only irrational but also extremely hard to do without detrimental effects on our society. Animal use has become a pivotal part of industry, and medicine and human life as a whole. Thus, by putting animals on a par with themselves people are not only making their lives more complicated but also creating a misbalance in the natural ways of life.