Open AccessHistoria zawiedzionych nadziei. O zakazie chowu zwierząt na futra
Author(s) -
Agnieszka Bielska–Brodziak,
Marlena Drapalska-Grochowicz,
Marek Suska
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
zoophilologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2719-2687
pISSN - 2451-3849
DOI - 10.31261/zoophilologica.2020.06.28
Subject(s) - politics , cruelty , morality , animal welfare , political science , power (physics) , big business , environmental ethics , resistance (ecology) , law , law and economics , political economy , sociology , biology , ecology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
The deputy’s draft bill amendment about the Animal Protection Act submitted to the Marshal of the Sejm in November 2017 was one of the most ambitious attempts in the Third Republic of Poland to improve the legal protection of animals. The loudest proposal in the project was to prohibit the rearing and breeding of animals for the purpose of obtaining fur from them. In the article, the Authors reflect on the reasons for the political failure of this project. In the conditions of such strong centralization of political power, was the resistance from big business really decisive? What political conditions would have to be met for such far-reaching socio-economic changes motivated by public morality and environmental protection? Why this issue aroused so many contradictory emotions in political discourse? What is more important: economic profits based on cruelty to animals or life of sentient, autonomous beings?