Mommy, If Flipper Can Eat Seakittens, Then Why Can't I?

Two very interesting asides on the animal rights debate, both from the GOOD.IS site.

First, Mark Peters discuss the movement to declare dolphins as non-human people, in his column, "What Is a Person, Anyway? " This is an interesting issue since the Supreme Court recently decided a case that grants full rights of personhood to corporations. Under these circumstances a sane person would have to ask, "If Burger King is a person, then why isn't Flipper?"

Second, PETA is now trying to rename fish "seakittens," to discourage (and probably attempt to criminalize) the eating of them. Andrew Price covers this in his blog post, "PETA Tries to Re-brand Fish as "Sea Kittens"."

If Dolphins are people and PETA gets its way, won't Flipper be prosecuted for having dinner? Didn't Rome kinda' get like this just before it fell to pieces?