photo: Guyon Morée via flickr. Let’s take the idea of animal rights in a legal direction. Over the weekend voters in Switzerland rejected a proposal to start public funding for lawyers to defend animals in court . Which to many people in the United States may seem like a no-brainer. Public funding for animal rights lawyers? Come on!… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Should Animals Have Their Own Legal Public Defenders?