What are rights anyway? You can't prove animals have them.
You can't give animals the right to vote. What rights do they get?
You don't give rights to plants (or insects or bacteria); so it's hypocritical to give them to animals.
Morality is subjective; the notion that animals have rights is just your opinion.
Animal rights is just a religion.
It demeans humans to give rights to animals.
Animals are raised to be eaten (or otherwise used).
Many animals wouldn't exist if we didn't raise them for our use.
The animals we use are happier because they are fed and protected.
To be consistent you have to stop using animals for such things as plowing; that is impossible in the world as it is.
The Bible gives humans dominion over animals.
Morals are a human construction; it is thus irrational to try to apply them to animals.
Animals don't care about us so we need not care about them.
We don't try to stop predators from killing, so we shouldn't be stopped.
AR supporters are hypocritical by not being against abortion.
Morals is based on reciprocal agreements; since animals can't agree to anything, they can't be encompassed by morality.
We would be overrun with animals.
Grazing animals for food allows us to use nonproductive lands.
It's impossible to eliminate all animal products from one's consumption.
Jobs, customs, and traditions would be lost.
The economy would be crippled.
Humans are at the pinnacle of evolution; this gives them the right to exploit other species.
Humans are at the top of the food chain.
Animals are just machines.
Animals have no souls.
In Nature animals kill and eat each other.
Natural selection is at work and we shouldn't try to overcome it.
AR is opposed to environmentalism.
Eating animals kills less because they are more dense nutritionally.
The animals are killed so fast they don't feel or know anything.
How can something that is dead suffer?
Animals won't produce if they are not content.
The animals have never known anything better.
Crop harvest techniques and transport lead to animal death.
Agriculture requires us to push animals off land and that would be a violation of their rights.
Farmers have to kill pests.
Humans are natural hunter-gatherers.
The world is made up of predators and prey; we are just another predator.
Hunting controls wildlife populations.
Animal experimentation has led to valuable advances and the saving of lives.
There are not always viable alternatives to animal experimentation.
People don't refuse treatments obtained from animals.
Evolution and natural selection justify a species-oriented approach to morality; as the human species, we have the right to exploit other species to benefit and safeguard our own.
The law gives us the right to exploit animals.
Animals don't feel pain. Animals don't suffer.
Some peoples, e.g., Eskimoes, must kill and eat animals.
People are more important than animals.
There is no such thing as "natural rights"; we have to choose to confer them.
Human lives have more potential than animal lives.
Animal rights are anti-science.
Animal rights is anthropomorphic.
Animals don't respect human rights.
Just as mothers owe a special duty to their children, we owe a special duty to humans.
Humans suffer more; thus, in a utilitarian tradeoff, humans will prevail.
You don't need to give animals rights to treat them well.
Animals are not rational.
Animals cannot talk.
There's no adequate definition of suffering.
How do you know animals suffer?
How do you quantify animal suffering?
Animals can't make claims.