The problem is, this is what many animal rightists—and Piraro is one—really believe. I remember, after writing an anti animal rights column for the San Francisco Chronicle, I received an e-mail (or perhaps it was a letter to the editor), claiming that even if a chimp wrote a symphony, I wouldn’t want it to have rights!
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