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easy personal loans for bad credit NhRP was founded in 2007 by animal rights attorney Steven Wise. The group is an association of some sixty lawyers, scientists and “policy experts” who maintain that some animals are “cognitively advanced” (e.g., chimps and other large primates, dolphins, and elephants), granting them a degree of self-awareness nearly on par with humans. Thus, group members argue, keeping them in captivity — be it in a zoo or in a lab — is the equivalent of slavery (note: this claim is actually founded upon the 1772 case of a black UK slave named James Somerset, in which the English judge acknowledged that Somerset was not a piece of property, but a person, and had him set free. The case became the legal foundation for the later Abolitionist movement)