RT Article
T1 Expressions of speciesism: the effects of keeping companion animals on animal abuse, animal trafficking and species decline
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 55
IS 5
SP 437
OP 451
A1 Sollund, Ragnhild Aslaug 1959-
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1854868292
AB Humans’ contact with other animals is chiefly organised around humans’ own consumption and ‘needs’. This article begins with an aspect of the human - non-human animal relationship that is connected to animals as social, not material beings -‘pet-keeping’. Over the past few years the pet industry has expanded enormously. I discuss how the keeping of companion animals can be understood, and the consequences for the animals involved; this practice leaves an increasing number vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, not the least dogs - the most common companion animal. The market for companion animals worldwide is fed by breeding, but also by the abduction of animals and birds from their habitats. Keeping companion animals contributes greatly to the endangerment of many species, parrots in particular. Therefore the focus of this paper especially concerns parrots and the consequences they and their species suffer from being abducted, trafficked and traded, whether the trade is criminalized or not. I will discuss implications of the CITES convention, whether it serves to legitimate rather than protect animals from trade, trafficking and suffering.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 449-451
K1 Animal Abuse
K1 Companion Animal
K1 Exotic Animal
K1 Grey Parrot
K1 Illegal Trade
DO 10.1007/s10611-011-9296-3