Entrepreneurs should be allowed breed hybrid hominids for profit

First of all, I would like to address my opponent's contention that Humanzees™ may be entitled to human rights by proposing the following everyday scenario: Imagine you are a gentleman taking a South Pacific cruise and the ship hits a reef and begins to take on water. As the vessel begins to list dangerously the captain gives the order to abandon ship. "Women and children first" he cries. Now the ship has 1,000 passengers and crew on board and there are exactly 1,000 places in the lifeboats, so nothing to worry about there and being something of a heroic fellow, you gallantly assist all the ladies and children into the lifeboats before turning your attention to the elderly gentlemen and disabled men. At last, all the passengers and crew are safely in the lifeboats except you and the captain, who climbs into the last lifeboat and sits down, thus leaving one seat free. By this time the ship is almost completely submerged, the water on the deck is lapping around your ankles and you notice the sharks have begun to circle. As you attempt to clamber into the lifeboat the captain suddenly gets excited, points behind you and shouts: "bubbles, bubbles! " At that moment an ape-like creature bounds along the flooded deck, leaps over your shoulders into the lifeboat and sits down in the last remaining seat. "Hello Bubbles! " the captain croons, "We thought we'd lost you! Ooh! Who's a good boy, then, who's a good boy! Look, everybody" he continues, "It's Bubbles: Lady Wright-Farquin-Kant's pet Humanzee™. Her Ladyship will be so pleased he's safe, so pleased indeed that she'll probably give me a handsome reward! " "Eh? But what about me? " you ask. "Sorry sir, you'll have to take your chances with the sharks, it's women and children first, you see" the captain explains. "But, that's not a woman, it's only a Humanzee™ and it's not even a female one" you protest. "Ah, yes" says the captain as he pushes the lifeboat off with an oar "but it's under the age of 16, which makes it a child. 'Bye! " And with that he leaves you to your watery fate. Now, that would be no good would it? No good at all. Clearly Humanzees™ must be legally defined as animals otherwise they would be entitled to everything a human is including state welfare payments, free medical care, free schooling, etc. and that would be ridiculous. Next, I must, with all due respect, contradict my opponent's suggestion that "it would be unjust to allow animals to do our work for us". Humans have always employed animals to do our work and provide for us, and indeed, bred them specifically for that purpose as I mentioned in Round 1. Where would America be without cowboys on horseback, for example? Cows were bred for meat and milk and were rounded up by men riding specially reared horses. I have a distinct presentiment that men riding penny-farthing bicycles trying to corral wild buffalo would have reaped few rewards for their efforts. Even today, animals such as police sniffer dogs and desert camels place a vital role in society. Regarding the cognitive ability of Humanzees™, I estimate that while an adult would have an equal or greater degree of manual dexterity to that of an adult human but they would only have the mental age of an 8 year-old human child. This would mean that they would be capable of understanding and performing simple tasks but would need caring for, just as a domestic dog or a human child does. Of course they would have instincts, but these would be mitigated by the learning processes they will undergo, just as we educate a child that it is wrong to steal and kill and train a dog to sit and fetch. Finally, I am obliged to concede that my Humanzee™ hominid hybrids' abilities and characteristics are not yet proved. That is why I am currently seeking business partners to help me develop this exciting and revolutionary new scheme. Specifically, I am seeking specialised embryologists to see this project through to fruition, the result of which will be of enormous benefit, not only to my fortunate shareholders, but also mankind in general. Thank you.