February 2, 2001
Why Animals Deserve Legal Rights
For centuries, the right to have everything that makes existence worthwhile -- like freedom, safety from torture, and even life itself -- has turned on whether the law classifies one as a person or a thing. Although some Jews once belonged to Pharaoh, Syrians to Nero, and African-Americans to George Washington, now every human is a person in the eyes of the law.
All nonhuman animals, on the other hand, are things with no rights. The law ignores them unless a person decides to do
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