Essay by Jean-Marc Gancille with a preface by Paul Watson
In this new essay, Jean-Marc Gancille explains an uncompromising picture of the relationship that human beings have established with the animal world, based on domination and exploitation , and this since before the birth of agriculture. Religious sacrifices, collections and trade of wild animals, domestication, use of animals for military purposes or for laboratory experiments, forced captivity in zoos and aquariums, recreational hunting and fishing, intensive breeding or overfishing… The list of forms that anthropocentrism adopts is endless.
The author does not stop at this sad assessment. He demonstrates that this carnage is not only an eternal hell for the animals but also a tragedy for the human species because of the destruction of ecosystems it causes, an immoral denial of the sensitivity of animals and a deception of the agri-food industry, which maintains the need to consume animal proteins among the public. Finally, he draws a path of action to “put an end to anthropocentrism” on the legal, food, agricultural level... and on the methods for leading this fight.