Animals should have rights like people, but not other creatures because those creatures don't harm other creatures, at least not actively? Animal life is predatory, that's what makes them animals, the fact that they kill.
Fungus is more closely related to animals, but we consider them to be plants. Why? Because they don't go around chewing things to death to survive.
Hypocrisy is a typically human endeavor. It;s the denial of it that makes us hypocrites.