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• 1 2021-04-02T03:39:43-07:00 Australian Law and The Status of Animals 4 The ACT only recently, in 2019, passed a law that recognises that animals have feelings. plain 2021-04-16T02:46:58-07:00
  It is probably amazing for most people to learn that not all states in Australia recognise that animals have feelings. For anyone who cares about animals it is pretty clear just from personal observation that they do, as the ACT only recently recognised by law in 2019. For caring pet owners, we know when our animals are sad, excited or happy. We can read the different expressions of dogs and cats and the different states of their body language. Why then is the law so far behind what I am sure the general population would consider an ethical stance?
  
  Here I think the term Capitalocene becomes useful as it draws attention to how operations of the state enable corporations to exploit animals in highly systemised ways – ways that are likely not approved of by the general population, I would imagine. For this law that recognises how animals have feelings only applies to pets. Animals that are not permitted into our homes and beds are therefore outside the protection of the law. As the article I linked to states, this law is also largely symbolic and lacks practical application for moderating human’s treatment of animals. In this way, the law is there to appease the minds of pet owners – to placate the general voting population and yet permit the practices of big business. The law therefore does not really care about the welfare of animals but about profit and power, which does not reflect the values of the general population.
  
  Terms like ‘Capitalocene’, created by Jason W. Moore, therefore reveal the predominant source of violence towards animals and undermine the view that humans are simply at odds with ‘nature’. A large portion of humans do want to have loving and symbiotic relationships with animals – it is predominantly rather the corporate world, as enabled by the state, that seeks to exploit them.
  
  Scholarly Article Link: 'If Schrödinger's cat miaows in the suburbs, will anyone hear?',
  
  This article examines how the law is inherently violent to what is feral - feral cats in particular - and provides suggestions for ways that the law can become-animal, as Delueze and Guattari would put it; ways that the law itself can sonderweave.
  
  By Claire - z3393668.