I was going to post this! Broke my heart.
I think people confuse animal rights with them all of a sudden voting, taking up train and bus seats and getting preferential treatment but truly, at it's core, it's purpose is to outlaw malicious, violent and abusive treatment towards them - something I imagine is hard to defend when you look at this video of them clearly demonstrating sentience. It is no longer "stupid, emotionless, lifeless animals that are nothing but a chemical reaction who were put here on earth for us to eat". Slowly but surely all the species are becoming "somebody" in our view. So for that, I'm glad