Animal Rights - what's your opinion?

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I've had stronger opinions on this in the past but nowadays think little about it.

I don't think animals can have rights because we couldn't expect them to know they have rights so how could they exercise them?

But I think humans have a responsibility to not mistreat them.

I agree to a certain extent with vivisection but it should have strict controls over it.

I eat meat and I like it, so I don't think we should not kill them for food.

But I do not like the battery farm principle and I won't buy economy eggs.

I do not think we should use them for testing cosmetics or other vanity products.

And NO to fur coats.

Nova,I think,has a good special on the intelligence of crows.It's called A Murder of Crows.
I think most humans are unaware,hence the Darwin Awards.
I've known dogs that were brighter than some people.
And PETA goes overboard,they said it was abuse to bring that famous groundhog Phil out on groundhog day,I saw a special on that groundhog,he's living better than a lot of people.

Rights are nothing more than an authority that is enforcable in law or in equity. Period.

If you don't live under a system of laws, you have no rights.
If you don't have standing to get the courts to enforce an authority, then it is not a right.

It is simple logic: Animals don't have standing in courts, therefore animals have no rights.

What animals do have is the recognition that limitations must be placed on the freedom of human beings to act in relation to animals.

We criminalize inhumane treatment of animals, for example, not because animals have a right to be free from inhumane treatment, but rather because we believe that humans should not be free to mete out inhumane treatment upon them.

Animals can't legally have rights and I won't pretend they do or should.
I believe in the ethical and humane treatment of animals but I'm not against legal and ethical hunting or fishing.
I'm also not against eating animals that were raised for the purpose of consumption.

I don't like commercial farming and would prefer to see us go back strictly to smaller family owned farms but that's not going to happen at this stage.
What I really HATE is to see are dogs and cats (I'm especially partial to dogs) abused, abandoned, or neglected.

humans are different to animals in that humans are burdened by duty and its associated etiquettes. Animals are not.

Citizens have rights. Pets and livestock do not.

I only buy free range eggs as I think battery farms are cruel, chickens being crammed in together unable to sit down.

I'm very anti fur its cruel to skin animals alive for someone to strut around thinking they look good when they don't.

I don't think wild animals should be in circuses.

Pet shops should only sell pet food and supplies, people should adopt an animal from a shelter.

As far as PETA are concerned they do go a bit far at times, they even attacked World Wide fund for nature who do a lot of good work with saving animals and their habitat.

I had a pet turkey that knew her reflection was just that.
For the majority of this life I watch the animals in my yard,and I'm in a remote area.
I've even had bears in the yard,most animals are way more connected to what's going on around them than any human.

In terms of mistreatment, I think it's more important that animals can suffer than that they can, or cannot, recognize themselves in a mirror. If an organism can experience pain and fear - and most animals can - then we humans should, as compassionate animals, strive to minimize the pain and fear that we cause to them. That doesn't necessarily mean pretending that we're herbivores, but it does suggest that humane animal raising and animal killing operations, along the lines of what Temple Grandin advocates and designs, should become the norm.