Bonita Alice writes: Certainly, we have not advanced very far in our relationships with the non-human animals with whom we co-inhabit the Earth. As if seeking proof and endless reassurance of what we regard as our superior position, we have refined and perfected our oppression of them, with little effort toward reconciliation.The Nonhuman Rights Project in the United States reminds us that, in …
Bonita Alice writes: Certainly, we have not advanced very far in our relationships with the non-human animals with whom we co-inhabit the Earth. As if seeking proof and endless reassurance of what we regard as our superior position, we have refined and perfected our oppression of them, with little effort toward reconciliation.The Nonhuman Rights Project in the United States reminds us that, in the fight to secure ‘personhood’ for specific (nonhuman) individuals, ‘the legal “thinghood” of all nonhuman animals is the primary obstacle to securing better protection for animals’.If it is true that …
