Raw LLM Responses

Of course animals have rights. They feel pain, they feel loss. Many morn for their dead. Many have been observed making deals or being mischievous. That doesn't mean that they are our equals. But it means we have a moral obligation to not do unnecessary harm to them when we do what we do. To put things in perspective: We should treat them the way we would wish to be treated if an alien race with IQs up in the 1,000s arrived. We would be at their mercy just like the animals are at ours. We can still morally eat animals but we are obligated to insure that their lives are reasonably pleasant and their deaths compassionate and painless. On a much larger scale we are also obligated to reserve a portion of the world as wild space so that the animals (not to mention the ecosystem) can thrive. My guess would be about 25% of the world distributed across all climates and geographies should be wild reserves. The number might be as high as 30%. Wild reserve = no permanent structures, no resource harvesting (mining, farming, drilling) no river modifications, no power lines, very few roads. And very, very few people. Basically just indigenous tribes (e.g. Yąnomamö)