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Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

Book by Lisa Kemmerer · 7 quotes · Primates, Animal Studies, Animal Ethics

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“Increasingly we come to understand that any difference between human and nonhuman primates does not necessarily show humans in a complimentary light.”

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“We are morally required to stop systematically exploiting others, whether chimpanzees or pygmy lemurs, chickens or chinchillas. Nonhuman animals are also persons who fare better or worse depending on the way we treat them, we must begin to give them the respect and dignity that persons deserve”

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“If we are going to save endangered primates, we must first recognize that they are individuals much like human beings, who prefer to be free to live their lives independent of exploitation.”

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“Nonhuman primates have been crowded out of diminishing forests, hunted for food or “medicine,” kidnapped for the lucrative pet/tourist trade, and bred for science. As a result, every primate species on the planet—aside from human beings—is either endangered or threatened.”

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