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animal rights
plural noun
- the rights of animals, claimed on ethical grounds, to the same humane treatment and protection from exploitation and abuse that are accorded to humans.
animal rights
plural noun
- the rights of animals to be protected from exploitation and abuse by humans
- ( as modifier )
the animal-rights lobby
Word History and Origins
Origin of animal rights1
Example Sentences
Bob Zimbal, third-generation owner of Zimbal Farms and Minkery, one of the state’s largest operations with about 100,000 minks, called the statement “propaganda,” and said animal rights groups are using the pandemic to try to shut down the industry.
The profile also described Limbaugh using “Born Free” to open an animal rights update — a takedown of animal rights activists.
Singer, who is also the author of the seminal 1975 book Animal Liberation that helped launch the animal rights movement, can now say it twice.
He said he had to turn down bike-safety and animal rights groups that approached him about legislation.
All of the women worked with an animal rights organization called Direct Action Everywhere.
Yes, animal rights activists are trying to ban the eating of cats and dogs in Switzerland.
But the Playboy Playmate and hardcore animal-rights activist has long been a major-league advocate for the State of Israel.
To some people, keeping orcas in metal cans is violent animal-rights abuse; to others it is apparently “normal and legal.”
Armed guards kept animal rights activists shouting “assassins” at bay.
Many Hollywood stars today care about the environment, or gay rights, or animal rights, or what have you.
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