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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. 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. ....
kevin corke is live. good evening. kevin: problems aplenty nationwide as you pointed out. millions of americans struggling with food and gas and housing costs. to say nothing of the crisis along the southern border. and the reason mass shootings. well, with all that happening, as you said, the biden administration instead appears to be focused on the airline industry, announcing today it will propose a rule requiring all airlines to compensate fires for the costs of meals and hotels, texas, the right years, and rebooking fees when the airlines are the ones to blame for canceled or delayed flights. but critics, yes, acknowledging perhaps the novelty of that i idea, there s still questioning tonight, the white house s fo focus. there are multiple things that the president and he can talk about the potential manufacturing crisis that house republicans have put forth. kevin: walk, talk, and chew gum. this is all happening as the latest washington post abc news poll ....
last monday. the the marine s lawyers releasing a statement that reads in part, quote, when mr. neely began threatening the passengers, daniel, with the help of others, acted to protect themselves until help arrived. daniel never intended to the harm mr. neely and could not have pore seen his untimely death. but activist al sharpton is firing people up saying criminal charges must be filed now. if you conot prosecute him, in my judgment, you will set a standard of vigilantism that we cannot old rate. the precedent tolerate. the precedent alone is a threat to the all of us. we cannot allow this lawlessness to go unchecked. you re not going to choke this young man to death and let us not stand up and raise our voice. you know, it s remarkable with al sharpton being around for 20 years, he hasn t saved the world yet, but apparently he is not. julie, it s kind of amazing, i try to stay off the subway as much as possible. you know, i was looking up the numbers, and sin ....