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Thomas Piketty’s book provides new tools to consider the property status of animals in contemporary society. Morgan Lieberman

July 16, 2015

Piketty’s Capital should force a rethink on animals as property

Dinesh Wadiwel, University of Sydney

Should animals be treated like other forms of property such as land, machinery and “stocks”? What role do animals that are owned by humans play in the concept of global wealth?

With an area smaller than an A4 sheet of paper required per bird, battery hens are debeaked so they don’t peck each other to death. Wikimedia

August 21, 2014

We have animal welfare laws but they don’t stop the suffering

Siobhan O'Sullivan, The University of Melbourne and Dinesh Wadiwel, University of Sydney

Julian Burnside and Daniel Reynolds wrote recently for The Conversation that: … animals do have greater rights than asylum seekers in Australia. In fact, Australian law requires that animals be treated…

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