Quote:These include cell and tissue cultures, analytical technology, molecular research, post mortem studies, computer modelling, epidemiology (population studies), ethical clinical research with volunteer patients and healthy subjects, and the use of microbes such as bacteria.
What about the rights of bacteria? This is something that actually interests me somewhat; at what point do animal rights activists draw the line? For instance, are insects considered "animals", and why don't plants (who are also living creatures) command the same kind of respect? After all, we are all related via DNA, and further than that, we are all made up of the same stuff (atoms).
What exactly gives animals rights but not plants, or bacteria, or rocks for that matter. Is it because most animals can feel pain? If so, what about those that suffer from forms of congenital analgesia? So please explain (using logic preferably) why some types of life have "rights" and why others do not.
