Abstracts
Abstract
The COVID-19 crisis has left zoos especially vulnerable to bankruptcy, and the precarity of their financial situation threatens the lives and well-being of the animals who live in them. In this paper, we argue that while we and our governments have a responsibility to ensure the protection of animals in struggling zoos, it is morally impermissible to make private donations or state subsidies to zoos because such actions serve to perpetuate an unjust institution. In order to protect zoo animals without perpetrating further injustice, governments should subsidize the transformation of zoos into sanctuaries and then facilitate the gradual closure of most of these sanctuaries.
Résumé
La crise du COVID-19 a rendu les zoos particulièrement vulnérables à la faillite, et la précarité de leur situation financière menace la vie et le bien-être des animaux qui y vivent. Dans cet article, nous soutenons que si nous et nos gouvernements avons la responsabilité d’assurer la protection des animaux dans les zoos en difficulté financière, il est moralement inadmissible de faire des dons privés ou d’offrir des subventions étatiques aux zoos, car de telles actions servent à perpétuer une institution injuste. Afin de protéger les animaux des zoos sans commettre d’autres injustices, les gouvernements devraient subventionner la transformation des zoos en sanctuaires et ensuite faciliter la fermeture progressive de la plupart de ces sanctuaires.
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