Turtle soup anyone?

[Russell Grinker]

>Russell Grinker:
>> As somebody once said, when a society starts treating animals like humans
>> it's only a matter of time before it treats human beings like animals...
>
>Hence, if you practice cannibalism, you'll have to
>give dogs the right to vote.  (Although I guess their
>votes won't be counted, either.)

Well we're well on our way to giving great apes rights, so who knows?
>
>Makes a lot of sense.  Who was that somebody?  Surely
>philosophical insight of that order shouldn't be lost
>in the mists of history.
>

Sorry - can't help you.  Anyone know? There was also the case of the
shipwrecked ape hanged by the English (during the Napoleonic Wars I think)
who were under the impression that it was a Frenchman.  That was more likely
just due to a bad case of English parochialism.

Russell