With the Spanish Parliament Poised to Extend “Human Rights” to Great Apes, What are the Implications for Human Beings and Other Animals?
Cornell Law Professor Sherry F. Colb has this article in Findlaw. She concludes:
That said, I am happy for the Spanish primates, just as I would be for any small group of animals (human or nonhuman) whose suffering at our hands is finally recognized as the wrong that it is. And perhaps, if the Parliament’s resolutions give rise to more conversations about animal rights around the world, they will indirectly lead more people to favor the abolition of animal torture, murder, and slavery, and to adopt that philosophy in their own lives, by becoming vegans.
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What do “ape rights” mean for human rights?
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Total insanity!!!