You aren't paying attention. I never said we weren't mammals as is the physical aspect. I said that animals should never have equal rights with human beings. Human beings must be valued above animals no questions asked. If you can't understandand the logistics, rationality, and common sense in that, then you probably don't understand why the world is going to crap either.
I think the point being made, Robert, was that the animal testing that you are concerned about being imposed on humans (if we are indeed just another animal) should not be done to animals either! The First Nations had a similar belief system whereby animals and humans were the same, both could change form from one to the other as they were both "spirits". That is why, before a hunter dispatched an animal, he first thanked it for allowing him to capture it. Animals deserved a level of respect they do not receive in a Judaeo-Christian world where man holds dominion "over every living thing that moves upon the earth."