The conflict between cultural rights and non-human animal rights:
A Proposal for mediation
Keywords:
speciesism, cultural rights, intercultural communication, cultural relativismAbstract
This article exposes the possibilities of intercultural communication as an ethical mediator in those situations where the defense of the non-human animal rights conflicts with the recognition of legislative exceptions for cultural practices that involve the use of non-human animals. I argue about the reasons why these cultural practices, assuming sentience as a criterion of moral consideration, should be understood as harmful to animals and that we should oppose to them in the same way that we oppose to harmful practices when they are perpetrated against human beings. I justify why a position that understands the rights of animals as universal is compatible with the rejection of colonialism or cultural imperialism. Finally, I propose two strategies of ethical mediation based on the emphasis on two properties of intercultural communication, as proposed by Bennett (1998): the emphasis on the difference and the ethical ethno-relativism.
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