Animal rights

What are your feelings about zoos? Do you think they exist to help animals or to entertain humans? Why?

Do you go horse riding? Have you ever been? Do you think it is cruel or do you think the horse enjoys it?

What are your feelings about hunting or fishing?

What - if anything - makes humans "special" or different?

Do you think that it's morally acceptable for scientists to use live animals in research for medicines that could be used to cure humans?

Do you think animals dream?

Do you think animals "think"?

Do you think it is wrong to eat animals? What are the advantages or disadvantages of being a vegetarian?

Should warm and attractive animals like puppies and kittens have more rights than ugly animals like rats and cockroaches? Why?

Do animals have emotions? If you have a pet, have you ever noticed it express what you consider to be an emotion?