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December 9, 2011
TWO VIEWS: NONHUMAN RIGHTS IS UNCHARTED TERRITORY FOR HUMAN LAW.
Read below: By our friend Patti Strand, National Animal Interest Alliance,
and Steven M. Wise, director Nonhuman Rights Project.
http://portlandtribune.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=132329679306118600
ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS OFTEN GO TOO FAR
By Patti Strand
Americans love animals. We keep more pets than any country in the world,
and we treat them like family: celebrating their birthdays, including
them in vacation plans, even hanging stockings for them at Christmas.
We also abhor the abuse of animals, and our laws and behaviors reflect
this. Animal cruelty is a criminal act, and the outrage expressed when a
story of animal cruelty is covered in the news is oftentimes more
intense and vitriolic than that which accompanies reports of human
suffering or abuse.
At the same time, at least 97 percent of Americans eat food derived from
animals, while a majority uses animal-based products and enjoy sports,
entertainment and educational activities showcasing animals.
Animals also work for us in a wide variety of ways - as service animals,
in search-and-rescue, even as transportation ........
(More at link above.)
The other view:
LEGAL "PERSONHOOD" SHIFTS LAW, THINKING
By Steven M. Wise
http://portlandtribune.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=132329668566321800
Wise writes from the Nonhuman Rights Project's perspective and compares
animal ownership to human slavery:
"We will seek a declaration that a specific nonhuman animal is entitled to
legal personhood under the state's common law, entitled as well to such
fundamental rights as bodily liberty and bodily integrity. ...
In selecting the first nonhuman animal plaintiffs, The Nonhuman Rights
Project is focusing on an orca or dolphin, a chimpanzee or other ape, an
elephant, or an African Grey Parrot ...."
(More at URL above.)
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