The Nonhuman Rights Project exists to get fundamental (human) rights for animals. That means legal standing like people have before the law. It's in contrast to protection for animals, which was codified into law many years ago.
Protection for animals goes beyond the law to non-government organizations like American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) which began in 1866.
Passionate care for animal welfare, a virtue, has been part of American life for a long time. It "must always flow from our duties as humans, not the fiction that animals are capable of possessing [human] rights."
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