Passantino, Annamaria, Companion Animals: An Examination of Their Legal Classification in Italy and the Impact on Their Welfare, 4 J.NOTE 4: Fish Are Just LIke Us, Animal Times, 2013, Issue #1, page 2, People for the Ethical Treatmwent of Animals (PETA).) discrimination against animals on the basis of species, suggesting that discriminating on the basis of species is unjustifiable in a manner similar to other forms of discrimination, such as racism and sexism. Dunayer, Joan, Advancing Animal Rights: A Response to Jeff Perz's Anti-Speciesism, Critique of Gray Francione's Work and Discussion of My Book Speciesism, 3 J.Bisgould, Leslie, Animals and the Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2011), page 289.Fish can count and tell time, they are fast learners, they think ahead and they have distinct personalities." 4 REFERENCES: Martine biologists assure us that fish do indeed feel pain (and) form complex social relationships. "It should be illegal for any human to breed any nonhuman."Īlthough not recognized in law, the views of some animal legal rights expert may have been expressed in these words: ![]() "No sentient being is an it, that, or thing. every sentient being is a someone, not a something. I (object) to categorizing nonhuman animals as things. She rightly criticizes speciesists 3 for characterizing non-human animals as things. "In 2004, Dunayer states that a someone is a sentient, thinking, feeling individual with unique life experiences whereas a something is not. It can give rise to some proposals that might raise the eyebrows of some lawyers.įor example, in a 2007 article published in the Journal of Animal Law by a non-legally-trained writer: The concept of a sentient being is hotly debated in the animal law community where the line between law and philosophy (if there is one), is not clearly drawn. "A conscious being’s capacity to feel and perceive in reference to animals, it often refers to the specific ability to feel pain and suffer." In her 2011 book on animal law, Leslie Bisgould proposed this definition of sentience: In some judicial decisions, the term sentient being has been described, simply, as living beings that feel pain. Notice the inclusion of human being in the definition of animal kingdom. And it is certain that they naturally seek, by all means available to them, to avoid painful experiences." ![]() "Sentient animals are beings that have a physical and psychological sensibility, which allows them - in the same way as humans - to experience pain and pleasure. "Only the members of the animal kingdom can be sentient, although not every animal species possesses the characteristics that would make their members be considered sentient beings. "A sentient being is a being that, by virtue of its characteristics, has the capability of experiencing suffering, both at physical and psychological levels, regardless of the species to which it belongs. ![]() ![]() In her 2008 article in the Journal of Animal Law, veterinarian Annamaria Passantino wrote: Generally, in law, a sentient being is one with the faculty of sensation and the power to to perceive, reason and think.
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