“I can’t tell you how many calls the zoo has gotten, ‘Take my monkey, I’m tired of it now’ type thing. That’s true with a lot of exotic animals. I’d certainly like to see the sale of any primate banned.”
“If you want to help animals in a general way, you have to stop eating them. That’s the number one thing you can do, and it will also help global warming, by the way.”
Jarrod Bailey, Richard Epstein, David Priestman, Laurie Pycroft, Roger Fouts, Steve Wise, Katherine Meyer, Theo Capaldo, Gary Francione, Lee Hall, Peter Singer, Sarah Baeckler, and Pedro Pozas Terrados respond to where they would draw the line and what criteria they would use when granting rights to animals.
“For me, any being who can feel anything, can have any experiences, or as we might say any sentient being, has interests.”
“When people ask where I draw the line, I say I’m not even really sure where I draw the line…What I think in terms of is, where would judges today draw the line using the principles and values that they use day in and day out?“
“For me the personhood of nonhumans means that we recognize one right. Only one right. The right not to be property. I don’t see this as a legal right…It’s basically a pre-legal moral right.“
“Well it depends on how seriously you take this…Are you allowed to act in self-defense against these people? Or only not to use deadly force? I don’t know what the rules are going to be.“
“If I’m a compassionate human being, I have a certain integrity in that approach to life. “
“Any animal who is conscious of experiencing life. So I look at consciousness as the criterion for where I draw the line.“
“We’ve always believed that we are special and we can use to our advantage in any way we like, any other nonhuman species. The problem comes with where do you then draw the line?“
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