In the article “No, animals have no rights” (2014), the author argues that the animal rights movement is reducing humans to animals, or elevating animals to humans. However this is not entirely true, humans are also animals, but with a higher degree of intelligence. In the article “Yes, Animals Have Feelings” (2014), it was shown that most scientists agree that vertebrate animals are, to varying degrees, sentient. Humans cannot understand exactly what they feel, but we can notice their change in behavior and emotions. Animals are responsive and expressive, they have their own intentions and preferences. Opponents believe that animals have no rights or that, even if they did, those rights should matter less than human desires; others believe that granting rights to animals would diminish humanity and that animal rights should be rejected; Furthermore, since human welfare is more important than animal welfare, animal interests should be ignored when necessary. Research from the Clever Dog Lab at the University of Vienna shows that dogs, just like humans, look first at the left side of the human face, where bilateral brains show more emotion. Therefore, dogs quickly read mood and intentions. Research conducted by Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trento found that dogs relaxed when they watched videos of dogs wagging their tails mainly downwards..
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