Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

I did tweet about " Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated As 'Non-human Persons' " yesterday, as I think this is a Gray Matter for a lot of people and might be interesting to explore. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory. Of course, the size of a brain isn't what's important.

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Dolphins Animal Rights Rights Animal 100

Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

Here are some of the my favorite quotes: In reality, species don't evolve toward greater humanness but toward greater adaptiveness in their ecological niche (105). No living group of nonhuman animals--no existing species of invertebrate, fish, amphibian, reptile, bird or nonhuman mammal--is ancestral to humans.

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Speciesism Apes Advocacy Salamander 100

Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

Also at Parade , which reader morganna alerted me to, is " Should Apes Be Allowed as Pets? Finally, there's an alert from Susan Hargreaves, who is a humane educator here in South Florida (via Trish). See Tim Gorski's (from Rattle the Cage) 2 minute video about humane. which includes a poll. Thank you, Susan Hargreaves.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 19, 2016

"There is no longer dispute among serious scientists that humans aren’t the only animals who have the capacity to suffer physically and mentally. Elephants, great apes, orcas, dogs, cats, and many other animals can experience depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and compulsive disorders.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2007

By abusing evolutionary biology in this way, we are able to read back the sophisticated conduct of people into the animal behavior that prefigures it. But this means that the apes appeal to animal-rights activists for precisely the wrong reason—namely, that they look like people and behave like people, while making no moral demands.

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