Lee Hall is legal director of Friends of Animals and operates GRASP (Great Ape Standing and Personhood). An organization “mindful of the issues of animal rights generally, the core mission of GRASP is to secure legal recognition of the rights of apes and all nonhuman primates to live in their own ways.” Sounds great, right? Well, one would think any step in the direction of granting all animals legal rights designed with the animals’ best interest in mind to be a step well placed. Instead what you have is another avenue created by FoA (Friends of Animals) to say what you want to hear to your face and behind your back they do exactly the contrary. Take the case of the OSU chimpanzees and two human plaintiffs. FoA attorneys argued that the OSU chimpanzees did not have legal rights as they are merely property owned by Primarily Primates Inc. Now there defense for this defense is “it was forced to use this defense”. I couldn’t disagree more. Had FoA attorneys accepted that the OSU animals had standing then all they had to do was convince a jury that as animals with legal rights the best place would have been PPI and the plaintiffs would obviously disagree then each side would provide evidence as to whether or not is in the best interest of the animals to remain in the care of Primarily Primates Inc. Instead they said the animals are just property owned by PPI. FoA and PPI have a mindset as evident by such statements as “several high value animals are missing…”  Anyone can see this. Their lies are finally catching up to them. They can no longer lie to cover another lie. There is too much proof coming from their mouths. These are the actions and statements presented by FoA and PPI. The underhandedness of FoA, PPI, GRASP or whatever you call yourself now will continue to be exposed.