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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The right to humane treatment claimed on behalf of animals, especially the right to be treated as persons or more like persons under the law.
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- noun The concept that
animals are entitled to certain fundamentalrights such as the right to be spared undue suffering.
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