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It's going to be a long, long time before the general population is ready to admit that animals can think and feel. For the longest time everyone assumed Chimps were #2 on the intelligence scale since they're so closely related to us, but it turns out that's not even the case. Cetaceans are more intelligent than apes and have shown highly complex social systems, and yet most of the world does very little to stop their slaughter. Most of the planet would be up in arms if a nation decided to start rounding up great apes and slaughtering them en masse for food, but whaling and dolphin hunting get only token condemnation. It's pretty horrific. Some are kept in cages, starved, and forced to perform for scraps. The ones that are hunted are killed in extremely painful and inhumane ways. Whales are killed with grenade tipped harpoons, and dolphins are rounded up by terrifying tactics and then stabbed once and allowed to bleed out. These are the most intelligent, social, and emotional creatures that we know of, aside from ourselves. I don't think personhood is really the answer, but I also don't believe that corporations should be legally people either. We need to seriously re-evaluate how we treat the world around us, but as long as there is money to be made, morals won't win out.
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