Discurso ofrecido en la Plaza de Mayo, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, con motivo del Día del animal no humano. Traducido y subtitulado por Soledad Moretti y Gonzalo Gómez. Ana María Aboglio, 29 de abril de 2012
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In Sap and Blood: Other Lives, Other Deaths of 2001 [1] my aim was to answer those who –claiming that plants could also “feel”– believed that it was morally acceptable to feed from non–humans since a killing would always be involved nevertheless. I stated that this comparison is incorrect but, should it be correct, the
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Placing animal life on the same level as vegetable life is one of the excuses used by omnivores–carnivores to downplay the suffering and slaughtering of animals for food, in a sort of resignation to a damage that according to them is unavoidable in a human being doomed to the “natural” food chain. Their arguments are
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Legally protected rights and interests Every right protects a particular interest. The legally granted right to protect such interest doesn’t depend on others beings able to benefit with the loss of that right. It means a barrier, a specific limitation in the actions of others, that only gives way in predetermined circumstances in which the
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