You’ve probably heard it said that humans and chimpanzees share about 98.5% of their genetic material.
That makes it sound like they are 98.5% human. That’s close enough that you might almost expect them to demand human rights, rather than to be treated as animals.
Well, there’s another human genetic relative that definitely should not be treated as an animal. It’s not as genetically close as a chimpanzee, since it only shares 75% of its genetic material with humans. But that’s still quite a bit — you might say it’s 3/4 human.
Why shouldn’t it be treated as an animal? Because it isn’t. It’s a vegetable: the pumpkin.
(Hat tip to John Derbyshire at the Corner.)