What is your feelings on animal rights versus animal welfare The links below will explain diffrences

http://www.americananimalwelfare.com/rig...

http://www.furcommission.com/debate/inde...

http://www.sover.net/~lsudlow/arvsaw.htm...

I am absolutely OPPOSED the false concept of animal "rights". Many of the people(and a lot of them are teenagers or younger)who are so pro-Animal Rights have no clue what it means to have "rights" in the first place! Your "rights" are NOT about how others are supposed to treat you, but what YOU are or are not allowed to do in a legal context! Every single right that we have, as citizens of one country or another, was fought for in some way and hard-won by the people who stood to gain the most from it, and with the understanding that will every right, MUST come responsibility and accountability for one's actions! Animals cannot in any way, shape or form comprehend this! They do not even know or understand what it means to have rights, or that anyone is out there trying to give them rights in the first place! Animals certainly cannot be expected to behave within certain parameters as established by their rights, either. To give some examples, the Constitution of the Untited States of America guarantees me, as a citizen of this country, the right to keep and bear arms, in other words, to own and use a gun. It also guarantees me the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. IF, however, I abuse those rights, and my idea of the pursuit of happiness is to use a gun to rob a convenience store and shoot the clerk, I understand that I can lose not only the right to keep and bear arms, but my liberty and my happiness(not gonna get too much of those in the Federal pen, am I?)and in some states, my life. I understand that I have to act with responsibility within those rights. An animal cannot understand this. I am held accountable by the legal and justice system if I violate the parameters of my rights; who is to hold an animal accountable? Without personal accountability, rights cannot exist. There has also been some parallels concocted by the Animal Rights people between the "struggle" for the "rights" of animals and the Civil Rights struggles of Black people in this country, which is still going on. Here's where the differences lie, folks. The people who were striving for Civil Rights were the ones who stood to gain the most from them; they knew what the stakes were, and were willing to risk everything for THEIR OWN gains and those of their decendants. The biggest gains in Civil Rights for Black people were NOT made by Whites. Animals do not even know that anyone is trying to give them "rights". They do not CARE. Thus, any gains in the rights of animals MUST be fought for, and gained by, those who stand to benefit the most from those rights-the animals themselves! Show me a speech written by a cow that comes close to Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream", or a bunch of dogs staging a sit-in at a restaurant to gain the right to order and eat there, or a pig who refuses to ride in a livestock trailer in order to protest pigs not being allowed to drive cars, and I'll start to believe, but until then, the whole "Animal Rights" thing isn't gonna fly with me!