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Carnage: quand le massacre du vivant menace la survie de notre propre espèce

By September 25th, 2020October 24th, 2020No Comments

Document type : podcast of C'est pas du vent on RFI

Author: Anne-Cécile Bras

Preview : 7 billion chickens, pigs, goats, turkeys, sheep and cows, 1,000 billion wild and farmed fish: that, according to the FAO, is what we kill and eat every year!

And this is just one aspect of our relationship with the animal world, there are also laboratory tests, zoos, hunting... These are elements in a real carnage that is about to explode in our faces and which, if we persist, could eventually lead to the disappearance of our own species. There are many ways to live together...

Guests:

- Jean-Marc Gancille, author of Carnage, pour en finir avec l'anthropocentrisme (Carnage: let's put an end to anthropocentrism), publisher Rue de l'échiquier

- Serge Morand, researcher at CIRAD and CNRS

- Gilbert Cochet, naturalist, co-author of L'Europe réensauvagée, vers un nouveau monde, in Actes Sud's  Mondes sauvages collection

- Joëlle Zask, philosopher, author of Zoocities, des animaux sauvages dans la ville, published by Premier Parallèle 

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