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Spain is breaking new ground in animal rights — by blurring the animal\/human line and asking for human rights treatment for Great Ape<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spain’s parliament is to declare support for rights to life and freedom for great apes on Wednesday, apparently the first time any national legislature will have recognized such rights for non-humans.<\/p>\n

Parliament is to ask the government to adhere to the Great Ape Project, which would mean recognizing that our closest genetic relatives should be part of a “community of equals” with humans, supporters of the resolution said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Raises a lot of interesting question, but it’s also kind of cool. More info at Collision Detection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spain is breaking new ground in animal rights — by blurring the animal\/human line and asking for human rights treatment for Great Ape. 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