Spain goes bananas!!!

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Originally Posted by The Spain Herald

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Originally Posted by The Spain Herald

The Spanish Socialist Party will introduce a bill in the Congress of Deputies calling for "the immediate inclusion of (simians) in the category of persons, and that they be given the moral and legal protection that currently are only enjoyed by human beings." The PSOE's justification is that humans share 98.4% of our genes with chimpanzees, 97.7% with gorillas, and 96.4% with orangutans.

It ain't April Fools.

I would certainly like to see a lot of animals treated better than they are, for the SPCA does not currently invoke enough summary executions to suit me, but I don't really think equating animals with people is the best course. I'm mostly pragmatic, but I've never been to Spain, and so I cannot say that there is necessarily a "better" way to go about such a solution. I do believe this will have futher reaching consequences than they might (or might not) think at present.



Sounds like an absolute hoot. Can't wait for it to hit their judicial system. GO SPAIN!