Un prof VG défend la chasse aux phoques !

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Seal hunt no worse than slaughterhouses, professor says



The Telegram (St. John's)
Sun 11 Mar 2007



University of Victoria law professor Maneesha Deckha, who lectures on
Canadian justice and animal rights, says the seal hunt is no worse than the
killing that goes on in slaughterhouses.



Deckha, a vegetarian with a long-standing interest in animal rights, is
teaching a seminar that examines the relationship between culture and law
and how our attitudes towards animals have formed a lack of legal protection
for them.



The course explores the reasons animals continue to be viewed as property,
and discusses what an alternative would be, whether that would include
stewardship, guardianship or something else.



Against hunt



Deckha said she definitely doesn't support the seal hunt - and doesn't
support any industry that depends on the instrumental status of animals.



"I don't want to single out the seal hunt as somehow being more exploitative
than something like the slaughterhouse," she said. "It's because of my
commitment to think about animals in a non- instrumental way, and there are
theoretical underpinnings for that position."



While making the killings of animals as humane as possible is definitely a
priority, Deckha said she's more concerned with how animals are considered
property.



"It's not so much how they are killed - of course I'm very interested in
reducing suffering as much as possible - but it's the fact that they're
killed at all," she explained. "Just like in slaughterhouses. What's really
problematic for someone like me is that we have slaughterhouses at all."

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Deckha, a vegetarian with a long-standing interest in animal rights, is teaching a seminar

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