It used to be that if you were an animal rights activist, you were respectable, like say, the Humane Society. Now, the ones who claim the title are trying to turn their carnivores into vegetarians, turning laboratory rodents free (to the delight of the local predators), and keeping the more exotic lab animals when they know no more about how to care for them than I do. And probably from the same books at that.
When a gorilla or chimp can be taught to sign and make up its own sentences instead of "communicating" by rote, then maybe they do deserve some additional protections. Making them co-equal with humans isn't fair to them or us, and I say that without being worried about what my ancestors were a thousand generations back.
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Why isn't PETA spelled PITA?
Date: 2006-06-12 06:48 pm (UTC)When a gorilla or chimp can be taught to sign and make up its own sentences instead of "communicating" by rote, then maybe they do deserve some additional protections. Making them co-equal with humans isn't fair to them or us, and I say that without being worried about what my ancestors were a thousand generations back.