"The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) is committed to the idea that some non-human animals meet the criteria of legal personhood and thus are deserving of specific rights and protections."
This quote was taken from the following website:
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/RNHP
Please visit this website so that you will learn about new efforts to afford Non-Human persons such as dolphins,whales and the great apes the protection of 'human rights' from our species to all beings who exhibit characteristics and tendencies consistent with that of a person—traits like self-awareness, intentionality, creativity, symbolic communication, and many others.Thank you!
Source of image:http://www.solcomhouse.com/dolphins.htm
To learn more about the idea of non-human persons please visit the following websites:
http://www.physorg.com/news181981904.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6973994.ece
http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=94537816102
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/chimpanzees-not/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/are_animals_people/
