Tag: animal welfare
Why “Humanize”? A New Effort to Defend the Unique Dignity of Human Beings
One of the tragic trends in thinking about evolution has been to blur the distinction between humans and animals. History warns us not to regard this lightly.
Judge Wishes She Could Rule Elephant a “Person”
This kind of thinking drives me nuts. First, we don’t treat animals as mere things or as being akin to inanimate objects.
Give Up Pets to Save the Planet!
Cats are, we are told sternly, an unsustainable “environmental vice that we must confront”!
In Germany, Constitutional Rights for…Pigs
The issue is known as “animal standing,” and activists want to let beasts sue in court to “break the species barrier.”
Lawsuit to Declare Elephant a “Person”
“Animal standing” is really a Trojan horse to allow animal rights extremists to seek court rulings enforcing their own ideology.