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Will Japan find a way around anti-whaling ruling?

The International Court of Justice has questioned the scientific value of Japan’s whaling program but questions remain as to whether the country will find another way to keep sending its ships. Transcript SARAH FERGUSON: The International Court of Justice may have ended what years of diplomacy and clashes on the high sea could not. Japan’s whaling in the Antarctic. Despite signing a moratorium on whaling in 1986, Japan continued to send a whaling fleet to the Southern Ocean. In 2010 Australia took Japan to the International Court challenging its claim that the hunting of the whales was for scientific purposes. Overnight that case was resolved. The court ruled 12 votes to four that Japan’s…

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About The Politics of Species

The assumption that humans are cognitively and morally superior to other animals is fundamental to social democracies and legal systems worldwide. It legitimises treating members of other animal species as inferior to humans. The last few decades have seen a growing awareness of this issue, as evidence continues to show that individuals of many other species have rich mental, emotional and social lives. Bringing together leading experts from a range of disciplines, this volume identifies the key barriers to a definition of moral respect that includes nonhuman animals.

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Themes

  • The Road to Respectful Coexistence

  • Carnal Desires

  • An Animal Bill of Rights?

  • Turning a Whale into a Killer

  • Apeism and Racism

  • What is a Person?

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