Spain: Human rights aren't just for humans anymore! Rights to be extended to apes, our evolutionary comrades

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Spain's parliament voiced its support on Wednesday for the rights of great apes to life and freedom in what will apparently be the first time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans.

Parliament's environmental committee approved resolutions urging Spain to comply with the Great Apes Project, devised by scientists and philosophers who say our closest genetic relatives deserve rights hitherto limited to humans.

"This is a historic day in the struggle for animal rights and in defense of our evolutionary comrades, which will doubtless go down in the history of humanity," said Pedro Pozas, Spanish director of the Great Apes Project.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews...=22&sp=true

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

eventually trolls will make that list too.

[SteveLaura 0]

This is, of course, long overdue. Jane Goodall can now legitimately go ahead and marry Gus, after their 20 year courtship. You go, girl!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

"Get your stinking paws off me you damned, dirty human!"

[mawilson 2,133]

[Niels Bohr 72]

Spain is the country with the highest sex satisfaction throughout the world. To get those shapely buns, and tootsies, one must eat alot of meats. If human rights is extended to cows, then, we will not see any more of those juicy melons, and buns that stretch the tight dresses.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Spain is the country with the highest sex satisfaction throughout the world. To get those shapely buns, and tootsies, one must eat alot of meats. If human rights is extended to cows, then, we will not see any more of those juicy melons, and buns that stretch the tight dresses.

Cows? Who said anything about cows?

[Jenn! 918]

Apes are people too!

[almaty 19]

president gerald..of the apes stated...

I am an ape man

I think Im so educated and Im so civilized

cos Im a strict vegetarian

But with the over-population and inflation and starvation

And the crazy politicians

I dont feel safe in this world no more

I dont want to die in a nuclear war

I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man

[Peikko 1,575]

I heard today, that the way we produce food these days is to consume 10 calories of fossil fuel to create one calorie of food we eat. That is not a very pretty calculation!

[almaty 19]

apes consume 0 fossil fuels a day

[Niels Bohr 72]

I like the blond in the Planets of the Apes.

[Peikko 1,575]

They consume PG tips!

[jundp 191]

I like the blond in the Planets of the Apes.

Totally had a crush on Dr. Cornelius when I was younger.

Apes FTW!

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Prediction: the chopf#kcs of PETA (edit: that describes cent-percent of the members of the organisation) will lobby to extend such rights to cows, dogs, cats, pigs, ...