“…If there is anything in common, it would be the fact of being framed within what has been called the "animal turn" 65 (at a global level) and, particularly in Europe, the obliging of Member States to incorporate the principles of European Animal Welfare legislation based on the scientific proof of animal sentience, on the one hand, and, on the other, the deconstruction of the principle of property, 66 as the only element generating the relationship between humans and animals. 67 For this reason, it should not come as a surprise that other occidental countries, unaffiliated with the works of the European Union, have introduced changes in the same sense -of considering animals to be sentient beings. I am referring to countries with a codified legal system, such as in the cases of Colombia, 68 Brazil, 69 Nicaragua, 70 or, partially, Mexico, 71 or Common Law countries such as New Zealand 72 or Canada.…”