Greg & Liz talk with Natalie Prosin, Executive Director of the Nonhuman Rights Project, an organization that is working to achieve legal rights for certain nonhuman animals. In the wake of Ringling Brothers' decision to phase out elephants from their circuses, Natalie explains why elephants, chimpanzees, cetaceans, and other cognitively-advanced animals deserve to be granted "legal personhood" as opposed to "legal thinghood." And "personhood" does NOT mean that these animals would be considered "people."
Learn more about the Nonhuman Rights Project at http://www.nonhumanrightsproject.org/
Aired March 8, 2015.