The Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Juan Cabandiehe stressed, within the framework of the animal daythat one attends “a new stage of paradigm shift” in the consideration, by society, of the rights and welfare of animalsby announcing the central points that will contain a animal welfare bill elaborated with the participation of different sectors, which will be sent to Congress for your treatment.
Cabandié listed the different aspects agreed upon “with the broad participation of academies, agencies, NGOs, and those who have been fighting every day, with great effort around the rights of animals”, when speaking at the closing of the Federal Welfare Forum Animal, which was held to coincide with the Day of the Animal, in the Women’s Hall of the Casa Rosada.
“In the 21st century, despite countless court rulings, even in Argentina, the full importance of respecting the rights of animals, which are living beings, which put us in a situation that we must resignify, is still not understood. ”, said the minister.
In this framework, he stated that it is not possible to delay “one more minute” in “understanding the problem of animal welfare.”
“We can not be with circus shows, demonstrating the skills of animals; with the possibility of importing wild fauna as if it were a produced good; we cannot be with zoos or hunting grounds, and we must increase the penalties, ”he postulated.
The minister added that, from the national government, “in no way” is it going to allow “hunting trophies” to leave the country, representing the worst of a society that was left in the past, and urged to work to change “the position dominance of humans over nature.
For her part, the secretary of Environmental Policy and Natural Resources, Beatriz Domingorena, stressed that the objective of the forum is “to rethink and change paradigms, to assist new regulatory bodies and urge territorial public policies that are a tool in the construction of well-being animal”.
The Federal Animal Welfare Forum constitutes a space for wide and plural exchange in whose framework seeks to promote a law that protects and improves the living conditions of animalsand is aimed at researchers, specialists, public and private institutions and people interested in the subject throughout the country.
