ABSTRACT
Western societies tend to treat ‘human’ and ‘animal’ as discontinuous and mutually exclusive concepts. The distinctive feature between the two ‘worlds’ has been the actual and potential possession of mind or ‘reason’. Unlike humans, animals and the rest of non-human nature are seen as devoid of rationality. In practice, this anthropocentric stance means that animals are not able to achieve moral goods intentionally, that is, they cannot create culture and, therefore, ought not be granted ‘rights’ or the status of moral agents (Haraway 1989; Willis 1990; Ingold 1994).
