Interesting news item today out of Austria. It is about a chimpanzee, Matthew Hiasl Pan, who an Austrian group, Association Against Animal Factories, is trying to have declared legally a "person with interests" rather than a "thing without interests" in order to help provide for his future care (the shelter he has been living at has gone bankrupt) and to ensure he isn't sold to someone outside the country where he would no longer be protected by Austrian animal cruelty laws. The article notes that they are not trying to have him declared "human" just legally a person rather than a thing.
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