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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Animal Welfare In our legal order -and in most of the countries-, animals have the category of things, with or without owners, and in this last case, they are susceptible of appropriation. As sentient beings, property of other individuals, their condition is comparable to that of the human slaves under the socio-economic system of slavery.
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RESUMEN Este artículo proyecta un foco central sobre la teoría abolicionista: si el punto de partida de un defensor de la animalidad no humana debe comenzar por la práctica del veganismo, su obrar como activista transformador requiere de una perspectiva bastante más compleja que la que surgiría de una mera divulgación intelectual, o de un
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