While we caress the beloved dog, we eat the cattle. We discriminate against one type and values of the other. Sound familiar? Exactly! We speak not of racism, but Speciesism.
As I flesh have stopped to eat before the age of 18 years, it was mainly for one reason: I wanted to make no longer a difference between my Pets that I loved dearly, and the nameless creature in pieces on my plate.
Another possibility would have been that I would have them all eaten. My horse in the same way as the Sausage modelled pig. I have asked myself: Can eat a true animal lover at all, some kind of animal? “No,” says Gabriela Kompatscher, Latinistin and researcher of the interdisciplinary research community of Human-Animal Studies.
Linguists, historians, philosophers, psychologists and natural scientists are trying within the Human-Animal Studies the development of the human-animal relationship to understand. Among other things, the researchers involved in the highly ambivalent behavior, the people of the different animal species to.
Love of animals has narrow limits
We pet our dog while we eat the Steak. It is a of so-called Speciesism embossed look that we have on animals: some we love, others we eat, it is a discrimination on the basis of type, belonging to the animal. Speziesimus is to be understood according to a Definition by the Australian philosopher Peter Singer, analogous to racism or sexism. The misfortune of the cow is alone to be not as a dog been born.
Thousands of chickens, cooped up in a Stall. Well the little one. But, worse about if it would be cats
The raison d’etre of the animals is exhausted, to serve the people? As a food, for entertainment, as a Guinea pig? Or animals have not of Themselves a right to life? And finally, Is the human animal really so superior, how he accepts, of course?
The Human Animal Studies, although a relatively young area of research. The questions that scientists pursue, however, are anything but new. Kompatscher is an associate Professor at the University of Innsbruck and crawled as Latinistin medieval and ancient texts for Clues to previous human-animal relationship.
The crown of creation?
Divided it was. The prevailing Thesis of the ancient world, which was then adopted by the early Christians, so, everything, including the animals, was made for man, and would be free to resist the philosopher Kelso’s voice (lat. Celsus). He admitted the animals the same right to life and the use of natural resources, such as the people.
Biologically, the Speciesism have to make sense, says Kompatscher. “The Elevation of the own type and the simultaneous depreciation of other species, protects the first species of my own.” These religious ideas had come, and the stylized man the crown of creation.
“The assumption that man is generally superior, and the animal may throw, and already it is shaping the socialisation process of young children”, says sociologist Reingard spannring, together with Kompatscher authored the book “Human Animal Studies: An introduction for students and teachers”. Children will taught from a young age that animals have to work in the sense of the people, especially as food.
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Vegan dishes – eating with a clear Conscience
Some animal species had the luck that man has for companions chosen. However, while in this country, dogs, cats, and Guinea pigs as family members apply, to the lands of the dog in China, in the pan and the Guinea pig finished his life in South America as a grilled meal of the day. In India the cow is considered sacred and therefore enjoys special protection status.
A bit of remorse remains
Even if the Killing of animals is socially legitimized completely, so well was the people never. Kompatscher tells of rituals, with which you already have in the middle ages the animal prior to slaughter his consent asked. From ceremonial burials of the animal bone in, of Asked.
Some of the African tribes and indigenous peoples of the hunted prey ask, even today, in this way, for forgiveness and thank them for their sacrifice, the white of the philosopher Kai Horsthemke, which examines the human-animal-relationship in African countries.
“In the rural areas, livestock are perceived to be much stronger than individuals. Since there are often very close and personal relationships,” says Horsthemke. The denser it is, however, to the large cities of Africa, pre-move, the more mass farms could find.
Alienation makes us blind
Anywhere where people no longer battles itself, skinning and evisceration, starts an alienation process. The death of the animals is invisible. The animal not only loses his individuality, because we get only small pieces or slices to the face, we can displace even successful that it is actually an animal.
Delicious! But only as long as we don’t have to think of the individual and his torments
So we suppress the shocking images of the mass animal stables or the Knowledge that animals can feel pain as well as anxiety and Stress.
“Psychologists say that we don’t want to torture animals. But we want to eat meat,” says Gabriela Kompatscher. It is a cognitive dissonance, a state of tension between Thinking and Acting arise. Here Bio-seal will help to soothe the bad Conscience or commercials with the happy cows, which makes us for a Moment believe that it is not the animals, not so bad.
A key question is also the most efficient degree of calm is not the right answer. It is the ethical question, the scientists of the Human-Animal-Studies: Should we be allowed to animals for our purposes? You eat, you remove the skin, in laboratories up to you to experiment? “We do it because we can do it”, said clamping ring. Whether we have to do it, to be arguing about. “Whether or not we should do it, is not even asked,” says the sociologist.
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