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Animal rights groups striving to make chickens and dogs not ‘owned’

By Donalee Moulton ( April 10, 2017, 8:43 AM EDT) -- A court case in Argentina made legal headlines and legal history recently. For the first time in the annals of law, a writ of habeas corpus was issued to protect a person caged without companionship for years. The person in this case was Cecilia, a chimpanzee at the Mendoza Zoological Park....
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