Why Animal Rights? Why the ALDF?

by Stephanie Ernst · 2008-12-30 08:04:00 UTC
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This post is a bit of a follow-up to yesterday's on the Animal Bill of Rights. Please watch the following video from the Animal Legal Defense Fund, explaining why animals' legal status must be changed and why the ALDF exists (and what it does). Then vote for the Animal Bill of Rights.

"The core problem that animals face is that they are treated in our society as if they are things. Their status in the law needs to be changed from the status of things to the status of sentient beings who have interests, whose interests should be protected."

"We envision a world in which the lives and interests of animals are protected by the law."

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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