Do animals have any legal recourse against human beings?

I find animal rights fascinating. Try following along with this story of the beagles that glow in the dark.

Ruppy the ruby puppy is a transgenic animal whose belly and paws glow under ultraviolet light thanks to genetic code from sea anemones...The most striking thing about Ruppy is how little attention she attracted from animal rights activists. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals made no comment. Nor did the Humane Society, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or such beast-friendly philosophers as Peter Singer and Matthew Scully... You might attribute the blasé activist reaction to the built-in ethical dilemmas of Ruppy’s case. To argue that the scientists have mistreated these dogs you’d need to establish that the beasts would have been better off not existing in the first place. The concept of wrongful life has actually been litigated in the court of human behavior, with mixed results. More...