Animals as persons
Dec. 24th, 2014 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heliopausaJust to group these together, really.
In Argentina, an orang-utan is judged to be a non-human person, and thus to have the right to be freed from a zoo, into a Brazilian sanctuary. (The zoo may appeal.)
In the USA, a chimpanzee is judged not to be a person, and thus to remain ownable property. (The Nonhuman Rights Project may appeal.)
In India, a monkey is filmed working for twenty minutes to resuscitate another, unrelated, monkey which had been electrocuted on railway wires.
In Argentina, an orang-utan is judged to be a non-human person, and thus to have the right to be freed from a zoo, into a Brazilian sanctuary. (The zoo may appeal.)
In the USA, a chimpanzee is judged not to be a person, and thus to remain ownable property. (The Nonhuman Rights Project may appeal.)
In India, a monkey is filmed working for twenty minutes to resuscitate another, unrelated, monkey which had been electrocuted on railway wires.
