Abstract
The contribution aims at analyzing the contents and the consequences of the
policy guidelines on animal welfare recently proposed by the EU. After a
short exploration of the main philosophical and scientific assumptions
legitimizing the duty to respect animals and a brief excursion into the
existing European legislation on animals, the paper focuses on the potential
implications for animal welfare deriving from Europe’s self-definition as
“knowledge-based society” and the legal qualification of animals as
“sentient beings” in the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU. Specifically,
the assessment of the cognitive assumptions embedded in certain human
practices related to animals could lead to the abolition of behaviors
conflicting with the scientific and legal awareness of animal suffering.
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] Dignity, science-based ethics, democracy: animal protection in the European knowledge society |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | Cibo e religioni: diritto e diritti |
Editor | Antonio Chizzoniti |
Pagine | 297-322 |
Numero di pagine | 26 |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2010 |
Keywords
- Unione Europea
- animal policy
- animal welfare
- macellazione rituale
- società della conoscenza