Biopolitika: Životinje. Meso. Hrana
Biopolitics. Animals. Meat. Food

Summary/Abstract: The general idea of this text is to reflect biopolitical constitution of the society and its implications related to the issues of animal welfare. Since animal in biopolitical formation is technically reduced to an object – commodity for contentment of the industry and of the people needs – critical public advisories are calling from moral, ethical and legal standpoint for attention to the fact that is necessary to protect animals from the unnecessary exploitation. It is obvious that animal protection is evoking animal rights question. But in the last instance protection of animal rights is related to the nutritional dilemma of animal food use. Question is arising: does animal rights in particular also envisage change in food politics (abandonment of meat food use), what is for instance the extreme veg(etari)an option taking for granted? This challenge sent to the culture of all-food eaters is opening up new questions and dilemmas. First of all, there is a question linked to the right of men to choose his own nutritional option, and of course dilemma which is related to scruples about meat-eaters and their (non)ability to love animals. / Opšta ideja ovog teksta je promisliti biopolitičnu konstituciju savremenog društva i njene implikacije vezane za status životinja. Pošto je životinja u biopolitičkoj konstituciji tehnološki gledano svedena na objekt – na predmet za zadovoljavanje potreba industrije i populacije – kritična masa upozorava, sa moralnog, etičkog i pravnog gledišta, da je potrebno zaštiti životinje pred neopravdanom eksploatacjom. Zaštita život(inj)a evocira pitanje prava životinja, koja nas dovode u poslednjoj instanci do dileme vezane za upotrebu životinja u prehrani. Postavlja se pitanje: da li zaštita prava životinja podrazumeva i promenu politike ishrane – napuštanje ishrane mesom – kako zahteva ekstremna veg(eterij)anska opcija? Taj izazov upućen kulturi svaštojeda povlači za sobom pre svega onu vrstu pitanja koja se tiču prava čoveka da sam izbere način na koji će se prehranjivati, odnosno dilemu da li je čovek sposoban za ljubav prema životinjama (staranje o životinjama), uprkos činjenici da se njima prehranjuje.

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