Before you criticize animal rights, you should read the book Animal Liberation and hear their arguments. There are many forms of bigotry that say just because someone looks different, they don’t matter as much, and bigotry based on whether you have light skin or dark; male or female organs; hair or fur; feet or hooves, are all equally indefensible. We all have feelings and deserve to have our feelings taken into fair account. In the case of severely retarded humans, they can’t even use intelligence as as argument for preferred treatment. So, yeah, we should start treating animals with the same respect we treat the severely retarded — not giving them the right to vote, but at least the right not to be enslaved, tortured, and killed for the pleasure of others. We should stop treating individuals differently because of their looks.