I can just imagine life wherein the Spaniards would have to get used to enjoying their paella in restaurants, with monkeys dining at the next table -- all because the hairy creatures are entitled to the same rights as all other Spanish citizens.I can also imagine the poor Spaniards having to wait in line at the travel agency much longer because it's peak season for chimps to be renewing their passports.
Will human patients be sharing semi-private rooms with King Kong's descendants in Madrid hospitals in a year or two? Will refusal to do so result in a lawsuit? Will orangutans cry "discrimination!!"?
Is Spain on its way to...er, aping a "Planet of the Apes" way of life?
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Drive to give 'human' rights to apes leaves Spanish divided
By David Rennie
(Filed: 10/06/2006)
Spain could soon become the first country in the world to give chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and other great apes some of the fundamental rights granted to human beings under a law being proposed by members of the ruling Socialist coalition.
Full story at Telegraph.co.uk
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