For the first time
several lawsuits have been filed … asking for writs of habeas corpus regarding chimps in New York… at Stonybrook and elsewhere held against their will, subjected to lives of infliction of pain and confinement. Legal personhood has been granted to animals in some other countries.Read the article
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/magazine/the-rights-of-man-and-beast.html?_r=0Listen to the show
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2014-04-28/fight-legal-rights-animals?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WAMU885DianeRehm+%28The+Diane+Rehm+Show+from+WAMU+and+NPR%29
Guests
Steven Wise
lawyer and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project; author of “Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals.”
Charles Siebert
poet, journalist, essayist and contributing writer for The New York Times magazine.
Robert Destro
professor of law and director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Law & Religion, Columbus School of Law, at The Catholic University of America.
Alan Dittrich
president of the Massachusetts Society for Medical Research.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/magazine/the-rights-of-man-and-beast.html?_r=0
Steven Wise works for the Nonhuman Rights Project and is author of Rattling The Cage.
Object to Professor Destro of Catholic University
Email: ailtoestro@cua.edu">Destro[at]cua.edu
Phone: (202) 319-5202
Website: http://www.law.edu/fac-staff/destror/
Department: Columbus School of Law
http://www.cua.edu/contact-us.cfm who along with the Catholic hierarchy (priests bishops cardinals the Pope) continue to ignore the rights of animals. The Catholic church since the Council of Nicea in 325 AD has hidden the vegetarian diet of Jesus, the Essene. Is Pope Francis the only pontiff who has gone to Assisi without mentioning kindness to animals, instead attacking ‘pantheism’. (God is omnipresent. Therefore God indwells all beings.) For 1689 years the Catholic Church, despite the thousands of vegetarian saints, has also obscured the first 3 centuries of Christianity when vegetarian diet permeated the church.
Object to Alan Dittrich, president of the Massachusetts Society for Medical Research. Boston Massachusetts receives
more money to torture animals than any other city. Harvard is the worst.
http://catholicveg.blogspot.com
Wise mentions chimp awareness of the future is demonstrated by a chimp in a zoo angered by captivity who stores stones and waits hours to be able to throw them at his abusers.
Charles Siebert spoke of a physical scarring from captivity, with brain neurons reduced and said that President Bill Clinton’s last act as president was to establish a chimp haven which would receive abused lab animals.
Picture from nytimes.com
