Does EURObama Share Francis Bacon's & Spain's Surreal Passion for Animal Rights? Will Great Apes Be Entitled to Universal Health

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Does EURObama Share Francis Bacon's & Spain's Surreal Passion for Animal Rights? Will Great Apes Be Entitled to Universal Healthcare in America?

Democrat Barack Obama says he won't just be a president for the American people, but the animals too.

"What about animal rights?" a woman shouted out during the candidate's town hall meeting outside Las Vegas Wednesday after he discussed issues that relate more to humans, like war, health care and the economy.

..."I think how we treat our animals reflects how we treat each other," he said.

...Obama's personal interactions with animals, in fact, appear to be much more humane. He has joined the fight against puppy mills...

...Spain is to become the first country to extend legal rights to apes, wrongfooting animal rights activists who have long campaigned against bullfighting in the country.

In what is thought to be the first time a national legislature has granted such rights to animals, the Spanish parliament’s environmental committee voted to approve resolutions committing the country to the Great Apes Project, designed by scientists and philosophers who say that humans’ closest biological relatives also deserve rights.

The resolution, adopted with crossparty support, calls on the Government to promote the Great Apes Project internationally and ensure the protection of apes from “abuse, torture and death”. “This is a historic moment in the struggle for animal rights,” Pedro Pozas, the Spanish director of the Great Apes Project, told The Times. “It will doubtless be remembered as a key moment in the defence of our evolutionary comrades.” [EVOLUTIONARY COMRADES??]...