If animals are persons, and deserve some or all of the rights that humans persons enjoy, then they should also bear some or all of the responsibilities that hum

If animals are persons, and deserve some or all of the rights that humans persons enjoy, then they should also bear some or all of the responsibilities that human persons usually bear. Oh, you just ate another sentient animal? Locked up in a zoo for the rest of your life. So although I believe that we should treat certain animals as if they had certain rights, I don't think we should approach the topic in the same way we think of human rights. If animal have rights, they will be very different kinds of rights than what we are used to. There may also be equally large differences between different species. Orcas are just as different from dogs, if not more, as dogs are from us. Even the right to life, possibly the most fundamental of human rights, takes on a completely different meaning when another animal claims the right to eat you. And perhaps if we think hard enough along these lines, we might also get some fresh insights about the ethics of human meat-eating.