APE PERSONHOOD : ape protection

http://www.personhood.org/personhood/lawreview/

The core mission of Great Ape Standing & Personhood (GRASP) is to secure legal recognition of the rights of apes and all nonhuman primates to live in their own ways.

- The condition of “humanness” is not essential to becoming a “person” under the law. -

- We now know that Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Bonobos, and Human Beings are all species of African Great Apes. -

- Together with Orang-utans, we are members of a slightly larger taxonomic group known as the Great Apes, or "Hominoidea." -

- We humans understand the other great apes much more than was possible even a few years ago. -

http://www.greatapeproject.org/

It is morally unjustifiable to treat sentient animals as items of chattel property.

Great Ape Project (GAP) is an international movement that aims to defend the rights of the non-human great primates - chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos, our closest relatives in the animal kingdom.

The main rights are: the right to life, the protection of individual liberty and the prohibition of torture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape_personhood