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The dehumanising effect of animal personhood

The dehumanising effect of animal personhood

To argue that owning a pet is the same as being a parent is to dehumanise a child. Animal rights and human rights are not mutually exclusive but we when our fight for animal rights involves assigning personhood to animals we need to re-examine our priorities.