Are Animals “Persons”?

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By Ken Ham

An elephant named “Happy,” who lives at the Bronx Zoo in New York, isn’t a person. Now, that should be obvious. After all, Happy is an elephant. But the courts, including now an appellate court, had to affirm what is “common sense” (as those who manage Happy put it) to most people—Happy is not a person. Undeterred, the “Nonhuman Rights Project” will take their case (i.e., that Happy, a supposedly unhappy elephant, deserves “human-like rights”) —to a higher court. Why is this story significant?

And activist groups like the Nonhuman Rights Project are pushing for animals to be granted personhood …read more

Source: Ken Ham AIG