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Photo: A scene from The War on Humans.

Smith: Personhood for Animals? What About Plants?

Bioethicist Wesley Smith examines the meaning of the term “personhood” and its implications for human rights. Read More ›
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Why “Humanize”? A New Effort to Defend the Unique Dignity of Human Beings

One of the tragic trends in thinking about evolution has been to blur the distinction between humans and animals. History warns us not to regard this lightly. Read More ›
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Photo: Wesley Smith speaking at the “March for Science or March for Scientism? Understanding the Real Threats to Science in America” event (screenshot). 

Wesley J. Smith on Rights Gone Wild

Listen in as Smith discusses how science has been conflated with ethics and talks about animal and plant rights. Read More ›
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Judge Wishes She Could Rule Elephant a “Person”

This kind of thinking drives me nuts. First, we don’t treat animals as mere things or as being akin to inanimate objects. Read More ›
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Lawsuit to Declare Elephant a “Person”

“Animal standing” is really a Trojan horse to allow animal rights extremists to seek court rulings enforcing their own ideology. Read More ›
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Chimpanzee Liberation? Why Animal Rights and Human Rights Cannot Coexist

A “manifesto” in the science journal Human Evolution declares that chimpanzees and bonobos should be considered legal “persons” with legally enforceable “rights.” Read More ›
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Photo credit: James Barker via Unsplash.

It’s Unjust Patriarchy to Own a Pet!

Corey Lee Wrenn argues that what is done to an animal should be judged in the same fashion as if the same thing were done to a human. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Erik Christensen, via Wikimedia Commons.

Japanese Whaling and Human Exceptionalism

Japan has quit the International Whaling Commission so that it can resume commercial slaughter of leviathans. Read More ›

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