Mankind has deceived its furry, finned and scaled friends by its disgraceful disregard for
             their basic rights as living beings. Nowhere is it written that humans, while perhaps the
             most developed of all species, are the rulers over their nonspeaking counterparts. Whether
             or not a person believes animals have the same rights as humans is not the issue: The issue
             is that animals have the same innate right to a life free of pain, suffering and exploitation as
             man does, regardless if they are lower on the life chain. Animals have no one to "stick up"
             (Harahan PG) for them; mankind must adopt the role of their caretaker or prepare to
             "Human beings must consider what impact our actions have on the lives of others.
             To limit moral consideration to humans only is no more logical or justifiable than limiting
             concern to white people only or to men only; specieism, like racism and sexism, is wrong
             because all animals contribute to the ecosystem and are capable of suffering"
             The issues that surround animal rights are both broad and complex; not only do
             they address the primal mistreatment of those from the animal kingdom, but they also
             appeal to man's inability to recognize the sentience of any creature other than himself.
             Animal experimentation is a particularly huge component of the animal rights argument,
             inasmuch as science has taken it upon itself to utilize animals as a means by which to
             progress the human race. Without the slightest bit of concern for the pain and suffering
             thrust upon laboratory specimens, man continues to poke, prod, burn and mutilate living,
             feeling animals in the name of science.
             Animals provide a significant supply of goods for human beings, not the least of
             which supports man's medicinal, food, companion and entertainment needs. However, in
             spite of all the various ways animals serve mankind, there has historically been little
             thought given to their own right to existence,...