Steven Wise interview at ARZone May 2012

I want to change the conversation in the courtroom from “Are you a human?” to “Are you the kind of being that should have rights, and what should those rights be?” Steven Wise was recently interviewed at ARZone. He talks about his Nonhuman Rights Project and its goal to win at least one right for [...]

Animal Rights Theories

There are many different views about exactly how to determine who is entitled to rights, and how those rights should vary depending on the species or individual. Most rights views hold that individuals meeting some requirement (whether that requirement be sentience, the possession of desires and beliefs, autonomy, or something else) are entitled to have [...]