Reforming Girlhood in Colonial Lagos

Bryant, Kelly Duke

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“…277 Even the provisions both religious systems of law made for categorizing certain species of animals which threaten humans as "pests" 278 are consistent with this; such categorizations have to do with the intrinsic characteristics of the animals in question, and not merely, as in American law, with how certain animals or groups of animals affect human interests at a given point in time. 279 Obviously, animal rights advocates tend to advocate for far more protection for animals than Islam or Judaism accords them. Afterall, animals are still on some level property in both Islam and Judaism, and those religions not only permit animals to be killed not only for human dietary purposes, but require such killing acts of ritual slaughter.…”

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Squashing the Beef: Why American Animal Rights Advocates Should Start Liking Jewish and Islamic Law

Saeed¹

2022

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Animal rights advocates in the West decry the mistreatment of animals, such as their use in experimentation and, most notoriously, factory farming. They identify the fact that animals are legally considered mere property as the source of these abuses. They also tend to view Abrahamic religions as responsible for this paradigm and in conflict with animal rights. The most flashpoint in this context is the battle over Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter. However, this Note argues, animal rights advocates mistarget their animosity. Jewish and Islamic law are quite favorable towards animals in comparison to American law, and while they obviously do not go as far as animal rights advocates would like in according rights to animals, they do cohere with modern animal rights views in several ways, such as by according animals a legal status distinct from mere property, subjecting the use of animals for food to heightened scrutiny, and providing more clearly for the enforcement of animal protection laws. As animal rights advocates and their opponents continue to debate the extent to which animals should be accorded greater legal protections under American law, these religious traditions show that the matters they are debating were considered and debated by Muslim and Jewish jurists thousands of years ago, and that, far from impeding animal rights, religious bodies of law constitute a positive example that can help advance them.

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Squashing the Beef: Why American Animal Rights Advocates Should Start Liking Jewish and Islamic Law

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Reforming Girlhood in Colonial Lagos

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