THE ZERO-SUM GAME: Human and animal personhood need not be at loggerheads

PETER MCKNIGHT: Just in case you were wondering, Swiss chimpanzees aren’t people. They might have been, mind you, but voters in Basel City, Switzerland, last week turned down a measure to recognize the legal personhood of non-human primates, thereby keeping the people club limited to humans. Well, not quite. The Swiss, like most of the … Continue reading THE ZERO-SUM GAME: Human and animal personhood need not be at loggerheads