But they do need the right to be respected. I think they re living beings just like us, and so they should be understood as much as we possibly can understand them. We shouldn t 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. We ve sort of set ourselves up as gods, and we regard anyone that doesn t fit into the human species as sort of trash. I mean, as you said earlier, we might pet them, we might skin them. We decide. And yet animals are not like us, they are us. If we took elementary biology, we learned that we are one animal among many. It s a great, if you will, somebody said an orchestra of life, we each play a different instrument. That s rather romantic
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
It is historic it is unprecedented, and it is on this morning, there are two presumptive president ial nominees for the longest stretch we have ever seen. Weve got new reporting on how both campaigns are attacking this period. And extinction level threat to humans. The new warning now from the State Department about the possible impacts of Artificial Intelligence and banning one of the worlds most popular social media apps. The major vote against tiktok before the house today as the nations top intel chief warns, china could try to use that app to metal the 2024 elections. Im kate bolduan with John Berman Sara is out today. This is Cnn News Central this morning or jiu presumptuous, arent we all actually the right word is presumptive, and it is not really us. It is them. President biden and donald trump overnight they became the presumptive nominees for president. They may be presumptuous to, but thats not an issue here. This morning. They are both secured enough delegates to get their
Time for some sport, lets go to the sport centre, Gavin Is Standing by. The final two spots in the European Champions League quarter finals are up for grabs after arsenal and barcelona secured their places on tuesday. Borussia dortmunds game against psv was finely poised ahead of their second leg last 16 tie. Its 1 0 dortmund there in germany, with about 30 minutes gone. Jadon sancho with the goal. And inter held the advantage over atletico madrid, from their first leg tie. It is currently goalless there in spain. One game in the Premier League to tell you about its the rearranged fixture between bournemouth and luton town. Into the second half of that one and 0 3 luton. Tahith chong and Chiedozie Ogbene and ross barkley with the goals. This fixture was abandoned late last year, after Luton Captain tom lockyer suffered a Cardiac Arrest on the pitch. Luton are out of the relegation places with a win. Keep up to date with all the latest scores on the bbc sport website. Jurgen klopp says
To be inseparable oh, no the Associated Press picked up the nyu story. Thats going to be in every paper. Ive been out. It wasnt even everyones going to think okay, not that theres anything wrong with that not that theres anything wrong with it. I michelson were counted in philadelphia with a question, how many among us are accurately described as lgbtq plus, according to gallup, the number is on the rise and reached an alltime high in 2023 gallops analysis was based on a survey of 12,000 adults 18 and older, and founded 7. 6 identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer . The data illustrates both agender, end, generational divide. Women are nearly twice as likely as menn do identify as lgbtq plus 8. 5 of women, 4. 7 of men, and nearly 30 of gen z women, those aged 18 to 26, identify as such most of them as bisexual. Each Younger Generation is about twice as likely as the generation that preceded it is selfidentify this way, only 1 of the Silent Generation the youngest of w