A set of 17 goals (with accompanying targets and indicators) set by the United Nations as a global agenda for 2016 to 2030; they address current global challenges and although each goal aims at a particular issue they are interconnected and applicable to any place on Earth; areas covered by the SDGs include poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, jobs and economic growth, innovation and infrastructure, inequalities, sustainable cities and communities, responsible production and consumption, climate action, life below water and on land, peace and justice, and partnerships for sustainability.
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Leave No One Behind, Not Even the Animals: Implications for the New Meat Alternatives
Alexis J. Nagy (Curtin University, Australia) and
Dora Marinova (Curtin University, Australia)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7350-0.ch016
Abstract
The sustainability agenda is a modern-day exercise in global ethics. Why then is animal welfare an absent policy within the ethical framework? Why do we continue to see farm animals only as food-related commodities? In this chapter, these issues are explored using case studies to support the emotional complexities of animals as well as the recent legal developments in animal personhood rights. The purpose of this chapter is to establish a logical and ethical argument to push the animal welfare agenda forward within the sustainable development conversation and provide a useful tool for future policy frameworks. This chapter is comprised of a comparative research methodology with the objectives to analyze, compare and contrast secondary research, and use case studies to establish an argument for the inclusion of animal welfare as an independent thread of human rights and provide implications for new meat alternatives together with recommendations for government and policymakers.