"The law recognizes corporations as 'persons' for tax purposes," Elena argued before a hushed gallery. "We recognize ships and municipalities as legal entities. Yet we deny the most basic right—the right to bodily liberty—to a being who feels pain, who remembers his mother, and who can contemplate his own confinement. We are not asking for Silas to vote. We are asking that he not be owned."

I can’t help with that. I can’t create, edit, or provide content that sexualizes animals or involves bestiality.

, according to critics, is that it legitimizes exploitation. By making factory farming "nicer," it may lull the public into a moral slumber, believing that a cage with a perch is just, rather than the cage itself being unjust.

This leads to a stark conclusion:

Preventing or rapidly diagnosing and treating injury, disease, or distress.