Gallup Reports: One-Third Believe Animals Deserve Equal Rights

I hope these people didn't think the question through: Gallup reports that a worrying 32 percent of respondents believe animals should have "the same rights as people."

Good grief. That would mean no ownership of animals. After all, people have the right not to be owned.

It would also mean no eating meat, no animal experimentation to achieve medical and scientific advances, or perhaps even the ownership of pets -- unless you had to obtain a guardianship for dogs, cats, fish, and birds as one...