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How the glorification of vegetarianism (and other single issue campaigns) is confusing the public about animal rights. Are the animal rights groups promoting exploitation? It seems the media are reporting a rising trend in vegetarians returning to eating meat. Could the big animal groups be to blame?  Organisations such as Viva! and Animal Aid, claim to want to end all animal exploitation (the abolishment of animal use), but what are they actually promoting? Could their message to the pubic actually conflict with this goal?........ Why animal rights? Non-human animals (for humans are in fact animals too) are sentient persons. That is they are conscious, feeling beings with individual personalities and their own set of needs and interests, much like ourselves. Non-human animals are used in their billions as food, clothing, entertainment and cheap research tools. This of course causes them immense suffering and in using them like this their inherent value as moral persons is ignored...

Why vegetarianism isn’t working. The following article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/8884326/Vegetarians-now-showing-their-softer-side.html#disqus_thread cites “ The number of vegetarians has dipped and plateaued over the past decade, partly because successful animal welfare campaigns have turned veggies back to meat. ” As we can see from the rise in articles like this, more and more vegetarians are going back to consuming meat, rather than becoming vegan. The attitude towards vegetarianism and animals themselves is pretty bleak, clearly the author of this particular article does not take them seriously. And is it any wonder? Spending time and resources promoting vegetarianism is not helping the animals. Indeed it seems it is damaging for animal advocates to do so. The message of rights for animals  (not to be used as property) is being lost. Firstly, the position of vegetarianism is an illogical one. It singles out and abstains from just one kind of animal use (flesh)...