What could possibly go wrong?

When Animals Sue:

"What? Treating animals at law as if they were human? Don’t laugh. Lest we be tempted to dismiss the referendum as just the latest European post-modernistic folly, the effort to open our own courtrooms to animals is quietly advancing. Indeed, “animal standing,” as the issue is usually called, is at the very top of the animal-rights movement’s policy wish list."

In lieu of facing real problems, this is what the Europeans have come up with in order to occupy their time. I am sure that we are next.....