Full Description
The book explores the theme of promoting the environment and animal rights through a comparative and multidisciplinary approach. Most of the authors have a legal background, but the approach is not limited to law, because today more than ever a synergy between disciplines appears essential, and only by bringing together different perspectives and methodologies is it possible to build a valid alternative to the scientific and legal anthropocentrism that is still prevailing. Science and law must work together to create an alternative to the present reality, a reality that con-tinues to mortify animal beings and is progressively destroying our planet. Recog-nizing animal beings as legal subjects is crucial not only to guarantee their welfare from a legal point of view, but also to safeguard human welfare, since zoonotic diseases, such as those responsible for global pandemics, highlight the risks of uncontrolled human-animal interactions.
Rethinking legal paradigms thus becomes imperative in order to prevent future crises and promote a more ethical and sustainable coexistence between human and non-human beings. In this volume, we have tried to propose a new paradigm by combining legal and medical-scientific expertise in a truly One Health perspective, hoping to contribute to the building of a credible alternative to the destruction of the planet we are witnessing.
Contents
Introduction, Francesca Rescigno; Part I. Legal perspectives; 1.The reform of Article 9 of the Italian Constitution as an implementation of the One Health paradigm: waiting for animal subjectivity, Francesca Rescigno; 2. Animal welfare and sustainability in the One Health perspective, Diana Cerini; 3. Evolution of legal subjectivity as private law category in the new Italian Constitution, Lucilla Gatt; 4. Transformative animal law: the recognition of animals' habeas corpus in comparative constitutional law, Giacomo Giorgini Pignatiello; 5. Phasing out industrial livestock as a requirement of international climate law, Anne Peters; 6. Sustainability and novel foods: food safety as a necessary pathway to adapt food consumption to sustainability requirements, Federico Laus; 7. Animal testing and alternative methods: the principles of Directive No. 63/2010, Maria Vittoria Ferroni; 8. Animals in Latin American Constitutions: critical analysis and new perspectives, Marita Giménez-Candela; 9. Ecofeminist approaches to the protection of whales in international law, Sara De Vido; 10. Green Communities and greenways, Francesco Tufarelli; Part II. Scientific perspectives; 11. Will the A/H5N1 avian flu virus be the cause of the next pandemic?, Maria Paola Landini; 12. Coherence and ethics in controlling the HPAI H5N1 panzootic, Ilaria Capua and Angela Fanelli; 13. Sustainability of dairy cattle production: the need for a trade-off between environmental impacts and animal welfare, Angelo Peli, Simone Gallese and Getu Tsegu Nuguse; 14. On the unsustainability of intensive animal exploitation: a scientific perspective, Francesco Gonella.
