Guest guest Posted February 7, 2000 Report Share Posted February 7, 2000 BACKGROUND For four thousand years, a legal stone wall has separated all human from all non-human animals. On one side, even the most trivial interests of a species ours are jealously guarded. We have assigned ourselves, alone amongst the million animal species, the exalted status of legal persons, entitled to the rights of personhood. On the other side of that wall lies the legal refuse of an entire kingdom, not just chimpanzees and bonobos, but gorillas and orangutans, monkeys, and dogs, elephants, and dolphins, legal things all. Their most basic and fundamental interests their pains, their lives, their freedoms are intentionally ignored, maliciously trampled, and routinely abused. In RATTLING THE CAGE: Toward Legal Rights for Animals (A Merloyd Lawrence Book/Perseus Books, February 8, 2000), animal rights activist and the country's best-known animal lawyer (USA Today) Steven Wise, who also teaches animal rights law at Harvard Law School, provides a brilliant and passionate discussion about why basic legal rights should be extended to animals, beginning with chimpanzees and bonobos. Wise shows us how law has evolved to bring fundamental rights to the most defenseless humans around the globe, but how it has yet to begin to evolve for other species. Even a human lost in a permanent vegetative state enjoys a large array of legal rights. But a chimpanzee in possession of a remarkable complex and active mind has no rights at all. RATTLING THE CAGE argues for the fundamental legal rights of bodily integrity and bodily liberty for chimpanzees and bonobos and shows how similar these creatures brains and genes are to our own. Wise peels away their mental layers to show us what is known about how they feel and what they think. We learn how they understand cause and effect, how they use and make tools, how they deceive, empathize, count simple numbers and add fractions, treat their illnesses with medicinal plants, communicate with symbols, understand English, use sign language, and how they might know what others think. In addition, Wise explains how our failure to recognize the basic legal rights of such animals creates a glaring contradiction in our law that not only treats them unjustly but undermines the foundation of human rights. Steven Wise has worked and communicated with the world's most prominent primatologists, visited many of their laboratories, and met the chimpanzees and bonobos whom they observe. In a witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, he demonstrates that, based on the latest scientific findings, the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of these apes entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse. This path-breaking and exciting book has everything needed to convince judges, scientists, lawyers, and the millions who simply care about animals of the injustice of denying them basic legal rights. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Steven M. Wise, J.D., is a prominent litigator who teaches Animal Rights Law at the Harvard, Vermont, and John Marshall Law Schools. His 20 years of courtroom experience, scientific collaboration with well-known scientists, and eloquent activism have made him, in the words of Roger Fouts, author of Next of Kin, the perfect person to write this book. RATTLING THE CAGE Toward Legal Rights for Animals by Steven M. Wise ISBN: 0-7382-0065-4; $25.00; 332 pages; Hardcover A Merloyd Lawrence Book/Perseus Books Publication date: February 8, 2000 WE NEED THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS ATTENDING THIS EDUCATIONAL EVENT (Delicious, inexpensive vegan restaurant only a few blocks away) FEBRUARY 8 - Steve Wise - Boston Tuesday 6:30 to 8:30 Save February 8 in Boston for Steve Wise's big BOOK EXTRAVAGANZA at Faneuil Hall in Boston MA. WHAT: Publication Party for RATTLING THE CAGE A presentation by Attorney Steve Wise of the ideas that lie behind RATTLING THE CAGE on why nonhuman animals are entitled to basic legal rights and a dialogue with fellow Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe, with questions and answers by the audience. The event will be moderated by THE CONNECTION host, Christopher Lydon. DATE: Tuesday, February 8 LOCATION: Faneuil Hall itself - upstairs TIME: 7:00 PM. to 9:00 PM. - be there early, if possible food available downstairs (Delicious, inexpensive vegan restaurant only a few blocks away) What will happen? Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe will engage Author and fellow Harvard Law School Professor Steven Wise regarding his new book, RATTLING THE CAGE Toward Legal Rights for Animals. -- _____________ Free email services provided by http://www.goodkarmamail.com powered by OutBlaze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 7, 2000 Report Share Posted February 7, 2000 THANK YOU ANJI! For the fabulous info on that book!!! Man, you are the best!~ Vikas Sharma of Operations & Media Carnival Management Web: http://www3.sympatico.ca/carnival Email: carnival Phone anji b [vegan] Sunday, February 06, 2000 9:14 PM RATTLING THE CAGE " anji b " <vegan BACKGROUND For four thousand years, a legal stone wall has separated all human from all non-human animals. On one side, even the most trivial interests of a species ours are jealously guarded. We have assigned ourselves, alone amongst the million animal species, the exalted status of legal persons, entitled to the rights of personhood. On the other side of that wall lies the legal refuse of an entire kingdom, not just chimpanzees and bonobos, but gorillas and orangutans, monkeys, and dogs, elephants, and dolphins, legal things all. Their most basic and fundamental interests their pains, their lives, their freedoms are intentionally ignored, maliciously trampled, and routinely abused. In RATTLING THE CAGE: Toward Legal Rights for Animals (A Merloyd Lawrence Book/Perseus Books, February 8, 2000), animal rights activist and the country's best-known animal lawyer (USA Today) Steven Wise, who also teaches animal rights law at Harvard Law School, provides a brilliant and passionate discussion about why basic legal rights should be extended to animals, beginning with chimpanzees and bonobos. Wise shows us how law has evolved to bring fundamental rights to the most defenseless humans around the globe, but how it has yet to begin to evolve for other species. Even a human lost in a permanent vegetative state enjoys a large array of legal rights. But a chimpanzee in possession of a remarkable complex and active mind has no rights at all. RATTLING THE CAGE argues for the fundamental legal rights of bodily integrity and bodily liberty for chimpanzees and bonobos and shows how similar these creatures brains and genes are to our own. Wise peels away their mental layers to show us what is known about how they feel and what they think. We learn how they understand cause and effect, how they use and make tools, how they deceive, empathize, count simple numbers and add fractions, treat their illnesses with medicinal plants, communicate with symbols, understand English, use sign language, and how they might know what others think. In addition, Wise explains how our failure to recognize the basic legal rights of such animals creates a glaring contradiction in our law that not only treats them unjustly but undermines the foundation of human rights. Steven Wise has worked and communicated with the world's most prominent primatologists, visited many of their laboratories, and met the chimpanzees and bonobos whom they observe. In a witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, he demonstrates that, based on the latest scientific findings, the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of these apes entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse. This path-breaking and exciting book has everything needed to convince judges, scientists, lawyers, and the millions who simply care about animals of the injustice of denying them basic legal rights. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Steven M. Wise, J.D., is a prominent litigator who teaches Animal Rights Law at the Harvard, Vermont, and John Marshall Law Schools. His 20 years of courtroom experience, scientific collaboration with well-known scientists, and eloquent activism have made him, in the words of Roger Fouts, author of Next of Kin, the perfect person to write this book. RATTLING THE CAGE Toward Legal Rights for Animals by Steven M. Wise ISBN: 0-7382-0065-4; $25.00; 332 pages; Hardcover A Merloyd Lawrence Book/Perseus Books Publication date: February 8, 2000 WE NEED THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS ATTENDING THIS EDUCATIONAL EVENT (Delicious, inexpensive vegan restaurant only a few blocks away) FEBRUARY 8 - Steve Wise - Boston Tuesday 6:30 to 8:30 Save February 8 in Boston for Steve Wise's big BOOK EXTRAVAGANZA at Faneuil Hall in Boston MA. WHAT: Publication Party for RATTLING THE CAGE A presentation by Attorney Steve Wise of the ideas that lie behind RATTLING THE CAGE on why nonhuman animals are entitled to basic legal rights and a dialogue with fellow Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe, with questions and answers by the audience. The event will be moderated by THE CONNECTION host, Christopher Lydon. DATE: Tuesday, February 8 LOCATION: Faneuil Hall itself - upstairs TIME: 7:00 PM. to 9:00 PM. - be there early, if possible food available downstairs (Delicious, inexpensive vegan restaurant only a few blocks away) What will happen? Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe will engage Author and fellow Harvard Law School Professor Steven Wise regarding his new book, RATTLING THE CAGE Toward Legal Rights for Animals. -- _____________ Free email services provided by http://www.goodkarmamail.com powered by OutBlaze --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- Want To Be Showered With Kisses? Visit eGroups Valentine Gift Guide <a href= " http://clickme./ad/SparksValentine9 " >Click Here</a> ------ Post message: Subscribe: - Un: - List owner: -owner Shortcut URL to this page: /community/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 8, 2000 Report Share Posted February 8, 2000 Hey this book is out today...I hope we can get our hands on it asap. It sounds tres cool. It s about time someone looked into a way to get animals some if not equal rights to be themselves and not suffer under our hands and murderous acts. I hope itll happen one day. Peace, Bliss Re: RATTLING THE CAGE > > > " anji b " <vegan > > > BACKGROUND > > For four thousand years, a legal stone wall has separated all human from all > non-human animals. On one side, even the most trivial interests of a species > ours are jealously guarded. We have assigned ourselves, alone amongst the > million animal species, the exalted status of legal persons, entitled to the > rights of personhood. On the other side of that wall lies the legal refuse > of an entire kingdom, not just chimpanzees and bonobos, but gorillas and > orangutans, monkeys, and dogs, elephants, and dolphins, legal things all. > Their most basic and fundamental interests their pains, their lives, their > freedoms are intentionally ignored, maliciously trampled, and routinely > abused. > > In RATTLING THE CAGE: Toward Legal Rights for Animals (A Merloyd Lawrence > Book/Perseus Books, February 8, 2000), animal rights activist and the > country's best-known animal lawyer (USA Today) Steven Wise, who also teaches > animal rights law at Harvard Law School, provides a brilliant and passionate > discussion about why basic legal rights should be extended to animals, > beginning with chimpanzees and bonobos. > > Wise shows us how law has evolved to bring fundamental rights to the most > defenseless humans around the globe, but how it has yet to begin to evolve > for other species. Even a human lost in a permanent vegetative state enjoys > a large array of legal rights. But a chimpanzee in possession of a > remarkable complex and active mind has no rights at all. > > RATTLING THE CAGE argues for the fundamental legal rights of bodily > integrity and bodily liberty for chimpanzees and bonobos and shows how > similar these creatures brains and genes are to our own. Wise peels away > their mental layers to show us what is known about how they feel and what > they think. We learn how they understand cause and effect, how they use and > make tools, how they deceive, empathize, count simple numbers and add > fractions, treat their illnesses with medicinal plants, communicate with > symbols, understand English, use sign language, and how they might know what > others think. > > In addition, Wise explains how our failure to recognize the basic legal > rights of such animals creates a glaring contradiction in our law that not > only treats them unjustly but undermines the foundation of human rights. > Steven Wise has worked and communicated with the world's most prominent > primatologists, visited many of their laboratories, and met the chimpanzees > and bonobos whom they observe. In a witty, moving, persuasive, and > impeccably researched argument, he demonstrates that, based on the latest > scientific findings, the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of > these apes entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse. > > > This path-breaking and exciting book has everything needed to convince > judges, scientists, lawyers, and the millions who simply care about animals > of the injustice of denying them basic legal rights. > > ABOUT THE AUTHOR: > Steven M. Wise, J.D., is a prominent litigator who teaches Animal Rights Law > at the Harvard, Vermont, and John Marshall Law Schools. His 20 years of > courtroom experience, scientific collaboration with well-known scientists, > and eloquent activism have made him, in the words of Roger Fouts, author of > Next of Kin, the perfect person to write this book. > > > RATTLING THE CAGE > Toward Legal Rights for Animals > by Steven M. Wise > ISBN: 0-7382-0065-4; $25.00; 332 pages; Hardcover > A Merloyd Lawrence Book/Perseus Books > Publication date: February 8, 2000 > > > WE NEED THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS ATTENDING THIS EDUCATIONAL EVENT > (Delicious, inexpensive vegan restaurant only a few blocks away) > > FEBRUARY 8 - Steve Wise - Boston Tuesday 6:30 to 8:30 > > Save February 8 in Boston for Steve Wise's big BOOK EXTRAVAGANZA at Faneuil > Hall in Boston MA. > > WHAT: Publication Party for RATTLING THE CAGE > A presentation by Attorney Steve Wise of the ideas that lie behind RATTLING > THE CAGE on why nonhuman animals are entitled to basic legal rights and a > dialogue with fellow Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe, with > questions and answers by the audience. The event will be moderated by THE > CONNECTION host, Christopher Lydon. > > DATE: Tuesday, February 8 > LOCATION: Faneuil Hall itself - upstairs > TIME: 7:00 PM. to 9:00 PM. - be there early, if possible food available > downstairs (Delicious, inexpensive vegan restaurant only a few blocks away) > > What will happen? > > Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe will engage Author and fellow Harvard > Law School Professor Steven Wise regarding his new book, RATTLING THE CAGE > Toward Legal Rights for Animals. > > > -- > > > _____________ > Free email services provided by http://www.goodkarmamail.com > > > powered by OutBlaze > > --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- > > Want To Be Showered With Kisses? > Visit eGroups Valentine Gift Guide > <a href= " http://clickme./ad/SparksValentine9 " >Click Here</a> > > ------ > > > Post message: > Subscribe: - > Un: - > List owner: -owner > > Shortcut URL to this page: > /community/ > > > > --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- > > Don’t buy your Valentine a Gift by clicking here. > <a href= " http://clickme./ad/SparksValentine11 " >Click Here</a> > > ------ > > > Post message: > Subscribe: - > Un: - > List owner: -owner > > Shortcut URL to this page: > /community/ > > > -- _____________ Free email services provided by http://www.goodkarmamail.com powered by OutBlaze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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