@lifeworship Animal rights don't refer to giving human rights to nonhuman animals. Animal rights refers to the rights that are appropriate to each species. So no, a cow doesn't need the right to vote, but she does need the basic negative rights to not be enslaved and not to be made to suffer for someone else's benefit.

Rights do not always and do not necessarily have to come with responsibilities. Does a newborn baby have rights? What are her responsibilities? What about someone who is cognitively disabled?