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The current spotlight on China's human rights record fails to illuminate its cruel and inhumane treatment of dogs and cats.
  • Animals obviously don't possess the right to live. Lacking that, they have no other inherent rights. They essentially have the status of animate object.

    I don't know what this means, not much, obviously. Condemned criminals don't have the legal right to live but that doesn't mean there are no limits on what can be done to them.