In honor of our simian brothers’ new-found human rights in Spain, I propose a toast to monkeys everywhere, including the fully upright ones. What could be more fundamental than the right to a martini? The “Fuzzy Monkey Martini” comes from Supercocktails.com.
Ingredients:
- Stoli Vodka
- Malibu Rum
- Hiram Walker White Peach Schnapps
- cranberry Juice
Quantities:
- 1 Part/s Stoli Vodka
- 1/2 Part/s Malibu Rum
- 1 Part/s Hiram Walker White Peach Schnapps
- 1 Part/s Cranberry Juice
Blending Instructions:
- Put all ingredients in a shaker with ice, shake, strain into a martini glass, garnish with a pineapple slice
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July 18th, 2008
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Great Apes are currently found in 21 countries in Africa and two countries in Southeast Asia. Those apes need to go to Spain where they will now enjoy basic human rights. MercatorNet explains:
Spain will become the first country in the world to extend some human rights to apes. From now on, the great apes – gorillas, chimpanzees and orang-utans – will enjoy the right to life, the right to the protection of individual liberty, and the right to prohibition of torture. “This is a historic moment in the struggle for animal rights,” Pedro Pozas, the Spanish director of the Great Apes Project, told the London Times. “It will doubtless be remembered as a key moment in the defence of our evolutionary comrades.”
Times Online reports that there are only 350 apes in Spain – all of them in zoos. Those apes will remain incarcerated without any right of habeas corpus, and the law inexplicably bans them from the entertainment industry where apes have historically achieved some of their greatest success.
Using apes in circuses, television commercials or filming will also be banned and while housing apes in Spanish zoos, of which there are currently 315, will remain legal, supporters of the bill have said the conditions in which most of them live will need to improve substantially.
But with its total ape population at a measly 315 to 350 apes, Spain might be criticized for making an empty, purely symbolic gesture. Anyone who really cares about simian quality of life should be helping apes to emigrate to Spain. Give Spain the chance to prove it’s serious! Soon you should be able to adopt an ape and move to the Costa Brava where your ape can enjoy its human rights in the sun and surf.
MercatorNet laments the loss of a more robust variety of leftists in Spain, who took up the plight of the downtrodden. The wimpy, Peter Singer version of leftism leaves a lot to be desired. But I think Spain can rise to the occasion, if only we send enough apes to allow the Spaniards to prove their mettle.
It will improve Spain’s image and give the apes a better place to live. You can read about the destruction of the apes’ natural habitat, by the way, at the Great Ape Trust of Iowa.
Iowa? How many apes are there in Iowa?
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July 18th, 2008
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