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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 ....
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 spe ....
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 stu ....
Entered the tunnel . Prince harry was going to make sure that history was not repeated, basically saying back off, youre hounding her like you hounded my mother. She was betrayed by so many people. We only know half the story. It was getting late in the city of lights, that last saturday in august, 1997. But sidewalks cafes in paris were still bustling. The mulan rouge was aglow. Riverboats along the seine were teaming with for us, and the paparazzi was out in full force because a special visitor was in town, in fact, the most famous Women In The World, Princess Diana. For years, cameras had tailed her like sharks follow blood. And now, on this late, august night, the hunt was still on. As diana and her new lover, Dodi Al Fayed sped away from the paparazzi, who were in hot pursuit. Suddenly, the driver made an unexpec ....
These are people who are in guerrero, and theyre on the phone in guerrero, in iguala, in most cases. I he reads in english if i dont answer, it is because ill be lunching with the military. I mean, these are evidence that theres direct Communications L and direct levels of contact between leaders of the Guerreros Unidos cartel and members of the Mexican Military. From the very beginning, like the morning after the attacks against the students, the big question was, what did the army do . Theres two army bases in iguala, a kilometre to two kilometres away from the various scenes of attack. They were out in the streets that night, at least by one in the morning. And at one in the morning, the attacks were still taking place. People were still being disappeared. At one in the morning, students were still being persecu ....