We now interrupt your regularly scheduled politics to bring you the absurd...

[daidalos]

http://www.thelocal.fr/20150129/animals-do-have-feelings-french-parliament-rules

Animals have feelings, French parliament rules

There was a significant victory for animal rights capaigners in France on Wednesday when the country's parliament officially recognised animals as "living, sentient beings" rather than just pieces of "furniture".

See what happens when you throw our Creator out the window? Suddenly dogs are the same as people! I'm sorry, no matter how much WE may love fido. Fido doesn't even know enough not to lick his own arse!

Man (and Woman) are NOT just another animal like a dog or a cat or a mouse.

Even evolutionarily, because of our ability to think, mankind is at the top of the food chain.

But scripturally, WE not the dog or any other animal, are created in the likeness of God.

[je_freedom]

Animals are living, but not sentient.
Sentient means able to think abstract thoughts.

[kit saginaw]

Yep, pets' ancestors are members of packs, flocks, schools, etc., so knowing modern France, it's probably a socialist gimmick. 

[daidalos]

No it's a real, concerted effort to lower human beings, to being nothing more than another animal.

Animals don't have rights endowed to them by their creator. And that's what the whole push to lower mankind to the status of another animal is really about.