Will Chimps Get Legal Rights ???

This morning New York’s Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether chimpanzees deserve to be given legal rights - specifically two chimps named Hercules and Leo being held in captivity by Stony Brook University in New York State for use in an anatomical research programme.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11631793/Is-it-time-that-chimps-are-given-legal-rights-What-about-elephants-dolphins-and-whales.html

Now that's interesting, particularly in light of the following:

• Corporations can still experiment on humans by giving us poorly tested meds and vaccines without our fully informed consent;
• Governments can take your children away from you if you fully exercise your so-called legal rights; and
• The US President's "kill list" can be used to murder people who allegedly meet some vaguely defined secret threat criteria, in spite of their so-called Constitutional rights.

But let's all celebrate that chimps and other non-humans may now get the rights which we no longer have.

Does this kind of crap maybe give you an inkling why I am so damn cynical?