Whoever argues in favor of granting rights to animals, has first accepted that humans have rights and believes that animals must also be recognized as subjects of rights. And only someone who has a notion of what having rights means can meaningfully ask for this. Yet here, leaving aside the fact that humans can be classified as a specific type of animal, there is no need to justify human rights, but only to assess the validity of animal rights. In a series of lectures published as a book under the title Economy, Society, and History, libertarian philosopher Hans-Hermann Hoppe puts forward...
