We as humans fight for our rights, but Regan himself states that animals don't have many abilities that humans possess, such as speaking. If an animal cannot speak, then we humans grant animal rights based on our instincts of what we think they deserve. This is why I believe that all animals deserve respect and not rights. When I think about my rights, the only right I really know is to say what I think. I feel like in this generation you don't care about your rights unless you're in danger of losing them. The one thing all human beings know is respect. Regan addresses how we treat animals before we slaughter them. Before we slaughter 9 billion chickens, they live in windowless sheds that are never cleaned and, from a health perspective, they have broken bones and grow crazy fast, so we can eat them faster and make room for more chickens. In the 42 million cows we kill every year we feed them dirty and unsanitary food and we also give them antibiotics to fight disease, which means that when we eat them/drink the milk produced by them, we never know if we are at risk of any disease have. Regan says, “The fundamental mistake is