Animals Are Person's Too By Maureen Nandini Mitra

"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; The Declaration of Independence holds these rights to be self evident and unalienable. In the eighteenth century, when these words were written, they were called natural rights. Today, we call them human rights.” (McShea 34). The dilemma of giving animals rights similar to those that humans retain is a highly disputed issue. Philosophers, politicians, and many others have fought for animal rights for years without success. Animal rights is a very delicate issue that questions animal intelligence, activist groups, and the good and bad in granting animals their rights. The article Animals are Persons Too, by Maureen Nandini Mitra, mentions the goal of a group named the NhRP led by biopsychologist
"Yerkish" gives the chimps the ability to talk to the computer using the keyboard. The computer thus responds appropriately to the typed message. While the chimp typed, it monitored its own sentences on a computer display and erased the sentences with grammar errors. At one point while the chimp typed a detailed sentence, its trainer purposefully and repeatedly interfered with her typing from a separate console in the room. The chimp then become annoyed by this and typed, "Please, Tim, leave room." (Sagan
PPF is an organization composed of men and women who encourage the eating of meat, the wearing of furs, and the usage of animals in research and scientific experimentation. PPF sides with the humans on the animal rights issue. Since PPF is the only group that is pro-human, it is also the only organization creating attempts to bring together the interests of hunters with all the other interests of those against animal rights (Tapply 98). This human rights organization promotes the view that human rights are superior to animal rights. This group began its anti-animal ways in 1990 with Kathleen Marquardt as the director and founder. They maintain a high public image by tracking down legislative proposals and voting against animal rights bills at state and local levels. The PPF also files public-interest lawsuits with federal regulatory agencies in order to expose the radicalism of the animal rights message (Tapply