Animals as Vulnerable Subjects: Beyond Interest-Convergence, Hierarchy, and Property

by Ani B. Satz

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Human relations with domestic animals—companion, factory farm, and laboratory animals—are based on contradiction. We coddle them, eat them, leave our estates to them, experiment on them, buy them designer collars and clothes, wear them, risk our lives for them, and abandon and kill them. These contradictions are entrenched in a sprawling body of law regulating human use of animals as property.

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