Anthropocentrism and speciesism: conceptual and normative issues

Faria, Cátia; Paez, Eze

doi:10.4321/s1886-58872014000300009

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“…Beneath this artificial binary between human-animal and nonhuman animals, there is the discriminatory process of Speciesism (Singer 2009;Faria and Paez 2014), whereby humans value one species of animal over another, claiming a love of horses and a hatred of rats, for example. Speciesism elevates certain animals, while denigrating others, and is rife in most societies, and often embedded in traditions that tend to confer weighty religious or secular powers on specific animals.…”

Section: The Rise and Fall Of Human-animal Binariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Milking It for All It’s Worth: Unpalatable Practices, Dairy Cows and Veterinary Work?

Clarke

Knights

2021

J Bus Ethics

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Viewing animals as a disposable resource is by no means novel, but does milking the cow for all its worth now represent a previously unimaginable level of exploitation? New technology has intensified milk production fourfold over the last 50 years, rendering the cow vulnerable to various and frequent clinical interventions deemed necessary to meet the demands for dairy products. A major question is whether or not the veterinary code of practice fits, or is in ethical tension, with the administration of ‘efficient’ techniques, such as artificial insemination, to enhance reproduction levels among cattle? Vets perform these interventions and their ‘success’ is measured by the maximisation of milk production, requiring perpetually pregnant cows. Our empirical research on 33 farm vets explores how their professional ethical code promising to protect the welfare of the animal ‘above all else’, is increasingly in conflict with, and subordinate to, the financial demands of clients. Since vets cannot stand outside of the productive power–knowledge relations that have intensified the consumption of animal bodily parts and secretions, we argue that a process of adiaphorization’ (Bauman and Lyon, Liquid surveillance, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2013, p. 8) occurs, whereby humans become morally indifferent to cruel practices deemed necessary to our consumerist ways of life. However, this indifference reflects and reinforces a taken-for-granted anthropocentrism among vets, animal owners and the population generally. We suggest that posthumanist ideas may offer new insights for the study of human–animal relations in organisations that transcend the coercive and negative impact of discourses that deny any alternative to prevailing farm/veterinary practices. Our study has major implications in relation to climate warming and zoonotic diseases, both partly derived from our unethical relationship to animals, that are increasingly threatening our, and their, lives.

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Section: The Rise and Fall Of Human-animal Binariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Milking It for All It’s Worth: Unpalatable Practices, Dairy Cows and Veterinary Work?

Clarke

Knights

2021

J Bus Ethics

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“…Anthropocentrism refers to the idea that humans are superior to any other living or non-living species and that human interests should be favoured over the interests of nonhuman entities. Speciesism, in turn, defends the preferential consideration and treatment of certain individuals based on their species membership (Faria & Paez, 2014). Humans' perceived moral superiority over any other entity has led them to treat animals as property, resources or commodities that satisfy human interests, thereby stripping away animals' value as individuals (Fennell, 2012).…”

Section: Posthumanismmentioning

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Horses in leisure events: a posthumanist exploration of commercial and cultural values

Monterrubio

Pérez

2020

Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events

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Horses currently play a leading role in many leisure events worldwide. However, their involvement in leisure activities raises various ethical questions. Based on a posthumanist approach, this study sought to explore the use and treatment of horses in a leisure event in Mexico. A participant observation method was adopted to conduct the research, revealing that horses become quite instrumental and commodified for humans, fulfilling intersecting entertainment, economic and cultural purposes. These results thus provide evidence of the prevailing anthropocentric and speciesist nature of horse-human interactions in leisure events. The findings include that, when horsehuman relations become highly commercialised and are institutionally recognised as cultural heritage, a complete embracement of posthumanism is needed to dissolve basic horse-human dichotomies, but this remains a utopian ideal in tourism and leisure practices.

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“…Antes de continuar cabe puntualizar que aunque comúnmente el término especismo ha estado fuertemente vinculado al antropocentrismo, sería incorrecto presuponer la equivalencia e intercambiabilidad de ambos términos (Faria y Paez, 2014;Horta, 2007). Aunque ciertamente guardan una estrecha relación, sucede que podemos imaginar diferenciaciones por cuestión de especie que no recaigan en ninguna parcialidad a favor de los seres humanos, es decir, que escapen del antropocentrismo.…”

Section: Especismo Como Discriminación Y Proyección Antropo (Andro) Cunclassified

Antropo (andro) centrismo y especie. Ideología y naturalización del especismo en tiempos liberales =Anthropo (andro) centrism and species. Ideology and naturalization of specism in liberal times

García

Fernández

2017

EUNOMÍA. Revista en Cultura De La Legalidad

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Antropo (andro) centrismo y especie. Ideología y naturalización del especismo en tiempos liberales . Resumen La pretendida falta de emocionalidad en los juicios políticos derivados del uso de la razón ilustrada ha supuesto la generación de un contexto biopolítico que ha tasado todo el orden conocido entre lo racional y positivo y (frente a) lo irracional y despreciado. En este segundo orden de irracionalidades se han depositado, en situación de marginalidad, de "lo otro", todos aquellos discursos y comunidades apartados del patronímico de referencia: el hombre blanco occidental ilustrado. En el siguiente trabajo exponemos cómo a través de la construcción de este discurso hegemónico, de raíz premoderna pero intensificado por la narrativa ilustrada, se ha pretendido naturalizar un orden asimétrico en la relación entre especies, que denominamos especismo. Este especismo, sostenemos, no es sino una derivación más del androcentrismo como discurso dominante que se expresa en otras marginalidades como el patriarcado, el racismo, el clasismo o el capacitismo. Palabras claveAntropo (andro) centrismo, biopolítica, hegemonía, Ilustración, especismo. AbstractThe alleged lack of emotionality in political judgments derived from the use of enlightened reason has led to the generation of a biopolitical context that has assessed the entire order known between the rational and positive and (versus) the irrational and despised. In this second order of irrationalities, all those discourses and communities that are isolated from the reference patronymic (the white man in modernity period), have been located in a situation of marginality.In the following work we show how through the construction of this hegemonic discourse, 26

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Anthropocentrism and speciesism: conceptual and normative issues

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

Milking It for All It’s Worth: Unpalatable Practices, Dairy Cows and Veterinary Work?

Milking It for All It’s Worth: Unpalatable Practices, Dairy Cows and Veterinary Work?

Horses in leisure events: a posthumanist exploration of commercial and cultural values

Antropo (andro) centrismo y especie. Ideología y naturalización del especismo en tiempos liberales =Anthropo (andro) centrism and species. Ideology and naturalization of specism in liberal times

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