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When the Butcher Calls the Hunter Foul, and the Muddied Politics which Follow: Speciesism and the EU Opposition to the Wolf Hunt

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Author

  • Kurtis Boyer

Summary, in English

Rarely does the death of animals cause conflict between governments. However, the killing of some animals, such as seals, wolves, and other exotic wildlife, can cause heated conflict over whether the act of killing is itself justifiable.This paper provides an overview of a recent disagreement along these lines – between the EU and Sweden over the management of wolves. It juxtaposes the recent politicalization of the wolf hunt with an overview of two very different moral frameworks that humans use to conceive of the value of animals. This paper argues that these two moral frameworks share in employing a human-centrism which consequently restricts how the issue of justice can be introduced into policy discussions regarding the treatment of animals. However, the primary assertion made here is that while these two frameworks are constituted by anthropocentrism, they represent two different incarnations of anthropocentrism which as is illustrated by the debate surrounding the justifiability of the wolf hunt, provide very different points to which questions of justice are truncated or introduced. Therefore the assertion made in this paper is that the conflict between the EU and Sweden, over the justifiability of the wolf hunt stems from competing articulations of anthropocentrism.

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Pages

201-209

Publication/Series

Contemporary Justice Review

Volume

19

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)

Keywords

  • speciesism
  • EU
  • Sweden
  • wolf

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1028-2580