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Bread and Circuses (@breadandcircuses) · 11/2022 · Tröts: 4.222 · Folger: 9.455
Mi 07.08.2024 13:30
What do you think? Can an animal be a person? Are they entitled to legal rights of personhood?
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Happy is a 51-year-old Asian elephant in the Bronx Zoo in New York City. But she didn’t start out there. She was born in the wild, then kidnapped – taken away from her family as a baby in Thailand – and sold, along with six other calves, to Lion Country Safari, Inc in California. In 1977, Happy and another elephant were relocated to the Bronx Zoo to be part of a new exhibit.
Had she not been abducted, Happy would be living in a complex, strongly bonded social group of other females and their children, enjoying life as a mother, daughter, cousin, and friend to others. With her group, she would traverse 8-12 km every day searching for a broad range of different foods to enjoy. And, as a highly intelligent autonomous being, she would have been in charge of her world and made decisions about every aspect of her life – what to do, where to go, whom to mate with, whom to spend time with, what to eat, how to raise her children: all of it. Instead, she lives alone inside a small holding facility lined with cages and is let out into a one-acre yard.
Happy’s plight is tragically familiar. Wild animals are shuffled around from one display facility to the next, and social groups are dismantled and reassembled with no similarity to what any animal would experience in the wild.
Admittedly, the notion of personhood for other animals is a strange one for most people, who equate being a person with being a human. But there is nothing in the law that says a person has to be a human.
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FULL STORY -- https://aeon.co/essays/why-nonhuman-beings-should-be-granted-personhood-rights
Screenshot from top of linked article. We see a photo of an Asian elephant standing next to a wire fence. Behind the fence are leafy trees and shrubs. Overlaid is a headline which says: "Happy the person – she has deep emotions, complex social needs, and a large elephant brain. Her legal personhood should be recognized too."
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