Childhood indoctrination

[littleendian]

But debating over giving a chicken equal rights?!?!

No, not equal rights, that's a usual response and a sin against the second commandment of rational arguments:

2. Thou shall not misrepresent or exaggerate a person's argument In order to make it easier to attack.

Basically just leaving them alone would be sufficient.

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Your oversimplicistic description let`s it apear like if it were the only thing we debated.
In case you didnt notice last week when a british soldier was murdered by muslim thugs - religion has an impact on our life.

You're right, but our own actions have consequences as well, and it's irrational to consider only those interests of one species if the members of many other species have exactly the same interests and exactly as much or as little right to ask for their fulfilment as us.