What is Animal Dignity in Law?
This essay attempts to understand dignity in the context of primarily European animal law. My overall claim can be put as follows. The notion of dignity is used in animal law discourse to express claims of more-than-welfarism. Whereas welfarism is premised on the humane treatment of animals and...
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| Language: | deu |
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Center for Animal Law and Ethics
2024-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Animal Law, Ethics and One Health |
| Online Access: | https://leoh.ch/article/view/5801 |
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| Summary: | This essay attempts to understand dignity in the context of primarily European animal law.
My overall claim can be put as follows. The notion of dignity is used in animal law discourse to express claims of more-than-welfarism. Whereas welfarism is premised on the humane treatment of animals and the prevention of unnecessary suffering, animal dignity is premised on respect for animals. However, adopting dignity-premised legal regulation does not necessarily entail the abandonment of welfarism. Rather, jurisdictions that have adopted dignity-based animal law have left welfarist regulations mostly intact. Hence, in its current stage of development, dignity-based animal law does not replace but rather augments the welfarist regime by “plugging its gaps”.
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| ISSN: | 2813-7434 |