{"id":753564,"date":"2018-06-14T08:14:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T12:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753564"},"modified":"2018-06-14T08:14:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T12:14:48","slug":"legal-personhood-for-non-human-animals-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753564","title":{"rendered":"Legal personhood for non-human animals (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Implied, in my view, in the refusals to extend legal personhood to non-human animals \u2013 in this case, chimpanzees \u2013 was also a fear of the breaking down of the human-animal distinction.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LINDA ROLAND DANILL:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;The lawsuits initiated by the NhRP [Nonhuman Rights Project] bring the focus to animals\u2019 rights, rather than their welfare, as is generally the focus of animal welfare legislation. As of writing, the lawsuits have been unsuccessful \u2013 although Hercules and Leo, two of the chimpanzees mentioned in the introduction \u2013 have been moved to a sanctuary&#8230; There were no sound, persuasive, or well-argued justifications provided by the Court as to why exactly Tommy and Kiko should not be considered \u2018persons\u2019 and therefore refusing to issue a writ for habeas corpus. There was, however, an explicit hierarchy set up in which humans were privileged, by virtue of being members of the \u2018human community\u2019 \u2013 without further elaboration as to why this privileging is justified&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Implied, in my view, in the refusals to extend legal personhood to non-human animals \u2013 in this case, chimpanzees \u2013 was also a fear of the breaking down of the human-animal distinction \u2013 a distinction that is predicated on human beings\u2019 denial or disavowal that \u2013 in spite of, amongst other things, our position as the dominant form of life on earth and our extraordinary capability to manipulate and mould the external world \u2013 we are likewise animals (albeit different) nonetheless.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Indeed, as philosophers like Julia Kristeva have argued \u2013 human culture itself is fundamentally predicated upon the disavowal and unequivocal exclusion of animals and our animal nature. The philosopher Jacques Derrida has similarly argued that the human comes about through a process of disavowing its animality. This does not mean that we should dispense with our socio-symbolic codes and legal systems and revert back to a state of nature \u2013 rather, recognizing that other non-human animals have rights could potentially mean a move towards greater enlightenment, compassion and empathy towards other non-human animals, as well as a greater respect for the environment more broadly, in a movement towards \u2018respectful co-existence\u2019.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/ukhumanrightsblog.com\/2018\/04\/26\/legal-personhood-for-non-human-animals-the-case-of-the-non-human-rights-project-dr-linda-roland-danil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VLe84OkwKOA?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LINDA ROLAND DANILL: &#8216;The lawsuits initiated by the NhRP [Nonhuman Rights Project] bring the focus to animals\u2019 rights, rather than their welfare, as is generally the focus of animal welfare legislation. As of writing, the lawsuits have been unsuccessful \u2013 although Hercules and Leo, two of the chimpanzees mentioned in the introduction \u2013 have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,21,23,24],"tags":[30,34,37],"class_list":["post-753564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-kisnship","category-rights","category-science","tag-exploitation","tag-personhood","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753566,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753564\/revisions\/753566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}