Sentientism | "A new world of animal justice" - Sabine Brels of @WorldAnimalJustice - Sentientism Ep: 189 @Sentientism | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 21 minutes ago.
Dr Sabine Brels (sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/sabine-brels) is a lawyer dedicated to advancing animal protection law worldwide. She teaches international & comparative animal law & has published books on animal related-issues in French & English. In the last 15 years, she directed the Global Animal Law projects & worked as legal advisor for the World Federation for Animals, the Eurogroup for Animals & Compassion in World Farming. Besides her consulting work, she leads the World Animal Justice NGO that she founded in 2023.
In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The audio is on our Podcast: apple.co/391khQO & https://anchor.fm/sentientism.
00:00 Clips!
01:09 Welcome
- Sabine's previous appearance on episode 66: youtu.be/OovrrbG1Crk
02:15 Sabine's Intro
- #internationallaw , #animallaw and #animalrights
03:17 International vs. national law
- #icc #icj #unitednations
- Laws of genocide, humanitarianism, crimes against humanity...
- Policy, law, regulation, enforcement
- Regional law e.g. EU, Asia...
07:34 World Animal Justice
- Bringing non-human animals into international law
- "An animal law revolution"
- #CrimesAgainstAnimality or #sentientity ?
- "Massive crimes against animals happen every day, everywhere worldwide... it's our collective responsibility"
- "Every day the entire European Union population is killed... that's a reality for animals... 450 million of animals are killed per day... this is only for food... every second it's 5000 animals killed"
- "It's not acceptable when we know that we can do otherwise... that this is avoidable"
- Companion, stray, laboratory, sport, working, wild animals "they are all victims of crimes against animality"
- Crimes against humanity: massive murders, sequestrations, enslavement, deportations, torture, violence including sexual violence "this is what is actually happening against animals every day... and it can still be legal in some places"
- Anti-cruelty and pro-welfare laws: "usually to reduce the suffering of these exploited animals or to condemn some acts of cruelty... mostly for companion animals"
- "1/3 of countries today still have nothing to protect animals - not even the basic anti-cruelty laws"
- "Some of the most cruel practices are still legal in some countries..." force-feeding for #foiegras and #bullfighting in France are "a kind of torture for animals"
- The potential for a global consensus at least against some of those most egregious practices "That's wrong for animals but also for our human dignity"
- India and some South American countries: have granted some rights to great apes or large mammals based on poor treatment in zoos
- WAJ: "Go faster and higher... criminality against animals is huge"
- Welfare / anti-cruelty approaches "we are not taking this concern for the gravity it is"
- "If we were doing the same to humans... it would seem unbelievable that it would be still legal... we would cry about genocides and crimes against humanity"
- WAJ's network of experts and NGOs spanning 5 continents
- Asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) to recognise crimes against animality
- ICC is already considering adding crimes against the environment into the Rome Statute - why not crimes against animality?
- Belgium's new law against #ecocide (up to 20 years in prison as penalty) ... what about #zoocide or #senticide ?
- "Animals are remaining the missing piece of the puzzle... we cannot protect humans and the environment without taking into consideration animals"
- #onehealth "all individuals need to be protected if we want to protect the web of life"
- #Athropocentrism to #ecocentrism... but missing #sentiocentrism !
- JW "The reality of many welfare initiatives... the exploitation and the harm will continue... we'll just be slightly less egregiously cruel as we do it... It wouldn't be enough for humans... It shouldn't be enough for non-human sentients either... from the perspective of the victim this is a crime"
- "Justice is all encompassing... #animalwelfare and #animalrights "
- "That would be a new world... a world of animal justice... not only sentient and conscious beings... but also vulnerable beings"
28:22 WAJ Expert Network
37:00 Impacts on Animal Agriculture
Follow Sabine & @WorldAnimalJustice :
- WAJ contact: contact@worldanimaljustice.org
- WAJ Website: worldanimaljustice.org
- WAJ introductory Video: youtu.be/lIH-OBe16I4
- WAJ Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/world-animal-justice
& much more... (sentientism.info for full notes)#sentientism
#sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all #sentient beings.” More at sentientism.info/. Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall sentientism.info/wall/.
Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. E.g.: facebook.com/groups/sentientism.
Dr Sabine Brels (sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/sabine-brels) is a lawyer dedicated to advancing animal protection law worldwide. She teaches international & comparative animal law & has published books on animal related-issues in French & English. In the last 15 years, she directed the Global Animal Law projects & worked as legal advisor for the World Federation for Animals, the Eurogroup for Animals & Compassion in World Farming. Besides her consulting work, she leads the World Animal Justice NGO that she founded in 2023.
In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The audio is on our Podcast: apple.co/391khQO & https://anchor.fm/sentientism.
00:00 Clips!
01:09 Welcome
- Sabine's previous appearance on episode 66: youtu.be/OovrrbG1Crk
02:15 Sabine's Intro
- #internationallaw , #animallaw and #animalrights
03:17 International vs. national law
- #icc #icj #unitednations
- Laws of genocide, humanitarianism, crimes against humanity...
- Policy, law, regulation, enforcement
- Regional law e.g. EU, Asia...
07:34 World Animal Justice
- Bringing non-human animals into international law
- "An animal law revolution"
- #CrimesAgainstAnimality or #sentientity ?
- "Massive crimes against animals happen every day, everywhere worldwide... it's our collective responsibility"
- "Every day the entire European Union population is killed... that's a reality for animals... 450 million of animals are killed per day... this is only for food... every second it's 5000 animals killed"
- "It's not acceptable when we know that we can do otherwise... that this is avoidable"
- Companion, stray, laboratory, sport, working, wild animals "they are all victims of crimes against animality"
- Crimes against humanity: massive murders, sequestrations, enslavement, deportations, torture, violence including sexual violence "this is what is actually happening against animals every day... and it can still be legal in some places"
- Anti-cruelty and pro-welfare laws: "usually to reduce the suffering of these exploited animals or to condemn some acts of cruelty... mostly for companion animals"
- "1/3 of countries today still have nothing to protect animals - not even the basic anti-cruelty laws"
- "Some of the most cruel practices are still legal in some countries..." force-feeding for #foiegras and #bullfighting in France are "a kind of torture for animals"
- The potential for a global consensus at least against some of those most egregious practices "That's wrong for animals but also for our human dignity"
- India and some South American countries: have granted some rights to great apes or large mammals based on poor treatment in zoos
- WAJ: "Go faster and higher... criminality against animals is huge"
- Welfare / anti-cruelty approaches "we are not taking this concern for the gravity it is"
- "If we were doing the same to humans... it would seem unbelievable that it would be still legal... we would cry about genocides and crimes against humanity"
- WAJ's network of experts and NGOs spanning 5 continents
- Asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) to recognise crimes against animality
- ICC is already considering adding crimes against the environment into the Rome Statute - why not crimes against animality?
- Belgium's new law against #ecocide (up to 20 years in prison as penalty) ... what about #zoocide or #senticide ?
- "Animals are remaining the missing piece of the puzzle... we cannot protect humans and the environment without taking into consideration animals"
- #onehealth "all individuals need to be protected if we want to protect the web of life"
- #Athropocentrism to #ecocentrism... but missing #sentiocentrism !
- JW "The reality of many welfare initiatives... the exploitation and the harm will continue... we'll just be slightly less egregiously cruel as we do it... It wouldn't be enough for humans... It shouldn't be enough for non-human sentients either... from the perspective of the victim this is a crime"
- "Justice is all encompassing... #animalwelfare and #animalrights "
- "That would be a new world... a world of animal justice... not only sentient and conscious beings... but also vulnerable beings"
28:22 WAJ Expert Network
37:00 Impacts on Animal Agriculture
Follow Sabine & @WorldAnimalJustice :
- WAJ contact: contact@worldanimaljustice.org
- WAJ Website: worldanimaljustice.org
- WAJ introductory Video: youtu.be/lIH-OBe16I4
- WAJ Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/world-animal-justice
& much more... (sentientism.info for full notes)#sentientism
#sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all #sentient beings.” More at sentientism.info/. Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall sentientism.info/wall/.
Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. E.g.: facebook.com/groups/sentientism.
