Welcome to hardtalk. Thanks very much, stephen. Its a great pleasure to have you in the studio. Let me start by trying to establish a core principle. Is it your belief that animals should enjoy equal rights, the same rights as humans . Well, not the same rights, because, of course, they dont need the right to do some of the things we wish to do, like drive a car or vote, although they might do better than weve done sometimes. But they do need the right to be respected. I think theyre living beings just like us, and so they should be understood as much as we possibly can understand them. We shouldnt inflict needless pain on them, and we should curb some of our habits that cause them a lot of suffering. Peta, your organisation, people for the ethical treatment of animals, opposes what it calls speciesism and a, quote, human supremacist worldview. Can you sort of explain what that actually means . Well, i think we have to get over ourselves as a species, as a Human Species. Weve sort of s
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. We humans have a complicated relationship with animals. Some we pet, some we skin, some we eat. We destroy their wild habitats while we agonise about the loss of species diversity. It is not an equal relationship, its exploitative, but will it ever change . And if so, how . My guest is determined that it should. Ingrid newkirk is president and Co Founder of the Campaign Group people for the ethical treatment of animals. Is she the Human Ally Animals need . Ingrid newkirk, welcome to hardtalk. Ingrid newkirk, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks very much, stephen. Thanks very much, stephen. Its a great pleasure its a great pleasure to have you in the studio. To have you in the studio. Let me start by trying let me start by trying to establish a core principle. To establish a core principle. Is it your belief that animals is it your belief that animals should enjoy equal rights, should enjoy equal rights, the same rights as humans . The same rights as huma
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Danger as well. Could have some more smoke push back into the bay area. Talk about that coming up in the full forecast. But now lets check in with gianna and we have the metering lights on for the bay bridge now. Yes, we do. And its already stacked up as you look live here at the bay bridge toll plaza. Already busy. So the bulk of the delays, just beyond this 880 overpass heading to the toll plaza. Up the incline. Past that portion things look better but it certainly slows down heading into San Francisco. At least on side near the skyway heading near that fremont exit. Drive times in the altamont pass, continue to be pretty hefty this morning. Theres a crash stboundi to the commute. Its in the center divide. But some spectator slowing as you work your way through there. And northbound 880, near dakota. Traffic just a little slow approaching the scene. Anne . Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And lets go live to the Supreme Court building right now in washington, d. C. Where the la