Abstract

LOZANO, CARLOS. Animal Rights in Colombia: A Critique from an Environmental Perspective. Rev. Derecho Estado [online]. 2023, n.54, pp.345-380.  Epub Feb 04, 2023. ISSN 0122-9893.  https://doi.org/10.18601/01229893.n54.11.

Animal Rights are commonly understood as an expression of the Rights of Nature. However, one and the other are in open contradiction, due to the complex interactions of ecosystems and the place of fauna in them, poorly understood by the generators of animal law rules, since animal suffering is inherent in nature. Animal Rights in Colombia are not an expression of the Rights of Nature; on the contrary, they undermine them, and hinder the consolidation of an Environmental Law aligned with social justice that places the survival of ecosystems at the center. This is because animal law illegalizes critical ecological processes, gentrifies Environmental Law, fosters an artificial binarism between fauna and flora, contradicts certain forms of climate action, hinders conservation, stigmatizes cultural diversity, discriminates by class, impedes the control of invasive species, generates a protection deficit for other kingdoms of life, such as plants and fungi, and promotes a transition from anthropocentrism to a kind of zoocentrism.

Keywords : Animalism; animal rights; speciesism; anthropocentrism; biodiversity; animal suffering.

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