Yes and no..it would knock out the US as a market, and hopefully other countries would follow. We have to start somewhere..nothing else is going to end it overnight either.

Well said, i hope this gets modded up.

I'm sure most of the lawyers are vegans, and already speak up for them as well. Keep in mind that a victory for any other species opens the door for the rest - including farm animals. If a chimpanzee is granted personhood, and a pig is nearly as smart as a chimpanzee...you can see where this goes.

Bear in mind these are dependent beings....not unlike a child or elderly person. They both have rights as well, but we don't 'let them go in the wild'. (Queue jokes.. ;) We care for them, as they're unable to care for themselves.

The point of the lawsuit is not as focused on current animals (all of whom are dependants), but more-so for future generations (free-living/wild chimpanzees). If granted personhood, they wouldn't be used in the first place, and animal sanctuaries would be needed less, and demand for them (poaching, breeding) would fall. This way, they wouldn't be in zoos, in labs or other exploitative environments, and instead would be where they ought to be - in the wild.

heh - i usually 'Block' accounts that do Sponsored Tweets. I wonder if many others do that, and how those accounts would respond if they knew they were being blocked en masse...?

It's all borked..please be sure to fix the scroll button, too. The scroll speed is different each time i log in!!

There really ought to be a way to disable/opt out of the t.co shortening..that's part of the problem. And i was fine with shortening URLs myself when needed... (Or able to choose who to use for this service..) Same thing when they disabled this for image sites....it's really frustrating and unfair; we should have a choice.

Err....isn't the TSA a government agency? It's not the airlines doing the screening, it's the US gov't.

Not all electricity comes from private corporations.. In BC, it's a publicly-owned entity, just as one example.

I'm most productive from 10am - 2pm.

Now even microchips are falling for the Atkins/Paleo high-protein fad!

Tho rarely discussed, in the Arctic, sled dogs are also eaten.

Well, keep in mind there are also athletes who want to push their natural limits without PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs) - this doesn't really leave them many opportunities (i'm from the cycling world, and have read heartbreaking stories of racers who opted out of doping to the ruin of their career, while dopers profit...)

There are other factors too, such as 'safe' limits for doping products. Everyone's going to want to push it even more of course... I'm in favor of clean sport.

I've had a lot of experience in sprouting (alfalfa, beans like chickpeas, peas, lentils, etc) - i'm going to make two batches from the same mix of seeds/beans, and place one beside my wifi router, and see what happens...

"Electrons in atomic orbits move without losing energy."

This intrigues me - wouldn't this, in essence, be an example of 'perpetual motion'? Wouldn't this prove, at least at this level, that perpetual energy is possible?