No, this is not a joke, though I wish it was.
The Spanish parliament has voiced its support for the rights of great apes to life and freedom.
In a statement, Pedro Pozas, Spanish director of the Great Apes Project, said, “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.”
Now I am worried if they will extend these rights to all of our “evolutionary comrades” because there might come a day when I can be charged with ‘man’-slaughter or even murder if I consciously kill a mosquito carrying the dengue fever virus.
And, gasp!, won’t eating meat be considered cannibalism?!
In the meantime, does anyone know how I can say “Welcome, cousins!” in ape-ese?
Full Story: Reuters.
Christ Alone Wyoming 
–In the meantime, does anyone know how I can say “Welcome, cousins!” in ape-ese?–
I think it’s “ook”.
Or maybe “oook”.
I’ll have to read some Pratchett again to be certain.
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Anyone else see the sad irony in this? People are willing to give APES the right to life, but don’t give a second thought about denying unborn HUMAN CHILDREN the right to life.
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Hey, guess whose one of the people behind this nonsense.
http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/06/28/spain-calls-for-apes-rights/
–The Project’s chief philosophical proponent, Dr. Peter Singer, doesn’t see the inconsistency. In a 2007 article in the Melbourne Herald-Sun, Singer argued that though “the opponents of abortion are right to say that abortion ends a human life…mere membership of our species doesn’t settle the moral issue of whether it is wrong to end a life.”–
Yep, Mr Peter “give rights to apes but not unborn humans” Singer.
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