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WEDNESDAY, JUL 2, 2008| 2 comments

Spain set to give rights to apes

MADRID, Spain (BP)--The Spanish Parliament's move to grant rights previously reserved for human beings to chimpanzees and other apes is a victory for those seeking to minimize the uniqueness of humanity, a bioethics specialist says.

An environmental committee in Spain's legislature approved a resolution June 25 calling for the government to abide by the Great Apes Project, a 15-year-old campaign to grant the right to life, freedom and no torture to chimps, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos. The measure has the support of a majority of members of Parliament and is expected to become law, according to Reuters News Service.

The Great Apes Project (GAP) is the brainchild of philosophers Peter Singer, a controversial ethics professor at Princeton University, and Paola Cavalieri, who founded it in 1993, Reuters reported. ...

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7/3/08 1:57 PM

San Jose John

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Easier for them to give rights to apes, or any other animal for that manner, than to cows.

Their bull fighting lobby wouldn't allow that.

7/2/08 4:22 PM

Minnow

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"The Spanish Parliament's move to grant rights previously reserved for human beings to chimpanzees and other apes"

I think someone is trying to make a monkey out of these politicians.
And has succeeded.

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