Defining Person Trailer: Exploring Legal Rights for Great Apes

Defining Person is a feature-length documentary film that explores the implications of the international movement to change the legal status of chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans from property to person in an effort to gain them greater legal protection.

Please visit http://www.gooseberryproductions.com for more information.

Category:

Pets & Animals

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• defining person
• documentary
• trailer
• great apes
• apes
• chimpanzee
• chimp
• orangutan
• gorilla
• bonobo
• great ape rights
• personhood rights
• personhood
• great ape project
• animal rights
• Peter Singer
• Steven Wise
• Gary Francione
• Jarrod Bailey
• David Priestman
• Pro-test
• Katherine Meyer
• Richard Epstein
• Pat Dingle
• Laurie Pycroft
• animal testing
• zoo
• animals in entertainment
• help animals
• endangered animals
• endangered species

[CrystalCastles2o11]

they want stop all programs to find Anti-AIDS medication.

they want death for all Gays.

AIDS still mutation and still be more strong...like other virus!....in one day AIDS will have everyone....and all will die.

[ta2joe13]

what a bunch of bleeding heart liberal bullshit

[InYourFaceNewYorker]

Also, are you going to interview Richard Dawkins for this?

[InYourFaceNewYorker]

This is wonderful. I hope you finish this! I'd love to see it! How does one support the Great Ape Project?

[silverbackman]

@beastinblack Consumerism and old western idea in general is what is destroying the other animals. Now that the white man doesn't consider non-whites as animals, all the races of man are now targeting animals (including the consumerists non-western peoples as well). Such a shame, we are as much animals as any other.

[silverbackman]

@beastinblack Or American politicians. So many humans lack "moral conscience" that to say humans generally have it is kinda a stretch.

[beastinblack]

Laurie Pycroft, humans are more important? oh right 6.8 billion of us and will soon be 9 billion, we are choking this planet to death at the expense of animals. RIP the Orangutan species. Us 'important' humans are killing them off thanks to consumerism I guess that makes us special...

[beastinblack]

What we are talking about is preventing habitat destruction and preventing poaching by putting someone in jail for killing a great ape.

[beastinblack]

@silverbackman moral conscience?! tell that to hitler and Iran.

[silverbackman]

Is that the best you can do? You can't counter with anything logical, even your religious bullshit. How am I wrong? You can say the theory of gravity is wrong and tell scientists to go "take a pill" but it doesn't make it so.

Any chance you might be able to get your head out of your ass? Or is that too much to ask for? Figures.