ABSTRACT
After sixty years’ participation in international conferences, most of which have been rather unsuccessful, it astonishes me that I feel that this one will make a difference. One reason why I feel this way is, I guess, the great areas of agreement among us. One of the remarkable agreements seems to be that it makes sense to speak of unfair or unjust policies in relation to non-humans. But there are many other areas where agreements or near-agreements were small twenty or thirty years ago.
