I agree. The concept of animal rights did not arise from the theory of evolution, but has existed in some form in many cultures including those that form the basis of Christianity. Conflating the two is just a political ploy to comingle two concepts that some find distasteful.
"You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain."
-Deuteronomy 25:4
"If a bird’s nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;"...