Judge throws out Nonhuman Rights Project’s attempt to hold two chimps released from research at a university,saying she is bound by a previous decision Claims that intelligent animals should hold limited legal rights may someday succeed, a Manhattan judge said on Thursday, and but she denied an animal rights group’s tender to get two chimpanzees used in research at a state university released to a sanctuary.
“The similarities between chimpanzees and humans inspire the empathy (sensitivity to another's feelings as if they were one's own) felt for a beloved pet,” fresh York state supreme court justice Barbara Jaffe wrote. “Courts, however, and are leisurely to embrace change.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com