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Last year Leona Helmsley left $12 million to her dog, Trouble, setting off a heated courtroom battle. California just passed a proposition that says farm animals must be humanely caged. The legal line between humans and animals is blurring further everyday. When it comes to "animal rights," should your cocker spaniel be entitled to the same freedoms and protections as your kid?
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Why Might Animals Have Rights?
Your childhood
You said: "Hardly anyone can have escaped one or another moral lecture from parents or neighbors concerning the treatment of cats, dogs, or birds." And you told of torturing insects and shooting at pigeons purely for "fun."
I find this assumption telling. In fact, not everyone has received such a lecture. Only those who ABUSED animals received that lecture.
“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it. - Margaret Mead
- ElaineVigneault
November 18, 2008 7:45PM
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