Should monkeys be considered persons

Monkeys are not humans but do have many if not all the characteristics that classify a human as Homo sapiens. So. You are agreeing with me that monkeys are like children. Ok, going along with this assumption you cannot then continue to say that they are not like humans, because a child is a human. A child does not have certain duties or rights but that does not change that they ARE humans. It is true that monkeys cannot bear legal duties because the court must recognize you as a citizen in order for that to happen. You cannot say if monkeys were to be treated like humans, they would commit crimes or put humans in danger because they do not do that now so it would be ridiculous to say so. A total of 20,000 monkeys die every year from research experiments out of approximately 40,000. Humans do not want to have monkeys considered as persons because it will not benefit them any longer. When you isolate a wild animal it becomes a distortion of what it once was. Monkeys are NOT dangerous animals and are able to reason and coexist peacefully with humans. When I accidentally step on my cat or dogs tail they yelp and limp away in pain, why is that? They fail that they are in pain and they are smart enough to realize they need to move away from what is hurting them. If we know they can feel pain and react to it there pain is morally relevant. Being morally relevant is being concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character and closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand. Humans DO KILL ANIMALS especially monkeys NEEDLESSLY so you are wrong about that. Humans have rights that"s why their lives are protected in some ways, so the reason some people do not want to allow monkeys to have the same considerations as person"s so that they may continue on violation these non-human animals without consequence. How immoral you have to defend such individuals. Monkeys are not used for food or clothes for humans just as guinea pigs. So in what world is it morally right to harm or endanger a being for the sole benefit of one"s makeup looking smoother or more defined someone who is knowledgeable in this area knows how harmful this could possibly be but disregards that. Animals are used for toxicity test for many medical purposes to save the lives of humans. "Humans are also used for testing products, the only difference is the outcome it causes on the human verse the animal", if this is true why do monkeys die and not humans? If this is true why not continue solely testing on humans? Humans and animals do not have different inherent values, we read the same reading and it says all being with inherent values hold the same ones. Most monkeys DO have logic and reasoning and that is proven, that is why they are such a hot commodity to be experimented on. So what you are saying is that monkeys and humans are both used for medical research and the monkey dies but not the human because they do not have rights. That is utterly ridiculous why kill monkeys pointlessly if you can save them? Human lives are not the only important lives on this planet. If it says they cannot be put in danger then that is not being enforced anywhere. Simply taking an animal out of the wild and its natural habitat decreases their chances of survival. Injecting them with some concoction a scientist wants to test endangers the animal. You are right people are imprisoned for harming another individual or violating laws and endangering the welfare of others. A monkey is imprisoned and abused against his/her will for simply being close to Homo sapiens in DNA. We are not talking about exotic animals we are talking about monkeys and the like. Does anyone think that their child should be experimented on for the benefit of others? Therefore, monkeys should be considered persons.