Animal cruelty
legislation presumes that nonhuman creatures are more than
inanimate property but less than creatures with full-fledged
rights. But as Contributing Editor Tim Cavanaugh writes in our
August-September issue, if we grant that pit bulls have a
compelling right not to be tormented for entertainment, what of a
beagle’s right not to be bred as a chimera in pursuit of nebulous
science fiction benefits that may never come to pass? And shouldn’t
the catalog of animal rights increase as we move up the scale of
intelligence?
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