Come Home Lassie
It is for the best of society to allow animal sacrifices we, as Utilitarians, are interested in the greatest good for the greatest number of individuals. I find, in fact, lamentable that communities continue to mistreat and use animals as Entertainment or even as food. Some argue that animals are unable to make moral choices, therefore cannot be regarded as possessors of Rights, but humans have duties and therefore only humans have rights. The ability to suffer, not the ability to reason, should be the benchmark, or the "insuperable line” that creates conscience that animals should be given Rights and equality. If reason alone were the criteria by which we judge the rights someone deserves, infants and adults with mental or physical disabilities might fall in the same category as animals. These are living organisms that just as human deserve to live. We, as human beings, have no power to decide which living creatures deserves and don’t deserve to be treated fairly. It is not ethical to say that just because animals are not capable of reasoning, they are unable to receive fair treatment. One day may come when the number of the legs or the color of the skin are not reasons that differentiate one another and we might consider all as sensitive beings that have the same fate