Joseph A Girouard is a well-known animal rights advocate. Joseph talks about how the step taken by Spanish Government to grant the right of life, freedom from arbitrary deprivation of liberty and protection from torture to apes is worthy of great appreciation.

1. Joseph A Girouard Talks about the Spanish
Government’s Step in the Right Direction
Joseph A Girouard is a well-known animal rights advocate who has
always argued that it is high time that we stop regarding animals as
property or treating them as resources for human purposes. He rather
emphasises on regarding them as legal persons. Joseph goes on to explain
how the term ‘animal rights’ is so much more than moral or personal
philosophy. He strongly believes that animals deserve autonomy in full
form, forbidding human beings from hunting, trapping, and/or confining
them.
Joseph A Girouard believes that whereas all domestic animals deserve a
kind human touch, the wild animals must be made capable of maintaining
a natural balance without any kind of intervention from human beings.
These rights of physical integrity also encompass the right of no more
bodily harm in terms of genetic engineering or extreme unhealthy forms
of breeding. Joseph further talks about how the step taken by Spanish
Government to grant the right of life, freedom from arbitrary deprivation
of liberty and protection from torture to apes is worthy of great
appreciation.
Joseph A Girouard feels that it is because of mankind’s failure at giving
the animals the rights and respect they deserve that we no longer find
wild animals in large numbers. Many researchers have observed that
even a simple contact with laboratory works can have devastating effects
on animals. He further highlights that vivisection labs should be actively
opposed as they cause the animals pain, misery, and even death in many
cases.
Joseph points out that the fact that we resort to ruthless use of animals
for reasons such as research and making products even when they have
never really interfered with our lives is rather saddening. It is high time
we start valuing non-human lives too.