Off-topic?  Yes.  Interesting?  That’s Your Call.

When I was a young lad, barely out of my parents’ gentle and loving reach, I took a course in ethics.  The range of topics we discussed that semester was immense, but I’ll never forget the conversation around Princeton University moral philosopher and animal rights champion Peter Singer, whose reasoning challenged every thought I’d ever had on the subject.

40 years later, Singer’s work, that he had begun as a young man in the 1970s, has moved forward into the demand for legal protection of many animals, and it’s expanded in ways that I’m sure he himself never could have imagined.  Here’s an article on the new-found rights of chimpanzees, elephants, dolphins, orcas, and other non-human primates, based on the laws surrounding unlawful imprisonment.