Democracy in its current form is anthropocentric – it takes human interest as the measure of all value
MATHEWS, ‘96 (Freya, “Ecology and Democracy”, pg. 19, accessed through Questia, September 7th, 2011 )
On the face of it, this .... control of nature [Eckersley, 1992:75-95]. 2
Domination over nonhuman animals gave rise to patriarchy, slavery, warefare, genocide, colonialism, and other systems of power – maintaining the human-nonhuman binary makes endless cycles of subordination and violence inevitable
Best ’07, Associate Professor, Departments of Humanities and Philosophy University of Texas, El Paso [Steven, Charles Patterson, The Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust New York: Lantern Books, 2002, 280 pp]
While a welcome advance ... baggage official Chistianithy left behind.
Thus, the alternative is to embrace the standpoint of the animal—this overcomes the humanist bias of the affirmative scholarship, connects the experiences of human and non-human animals and allows for total liberation by providing understanding of all oppression
Best, UT El Paso philosophy professor, 2009
(Steven, “The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal Liberation into Higher Education “, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume VII, Issue 1, 2009, http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/issue_9/JCAS%20VII%20Issue%201%20MAY%20ISSUE%20The%20Rise%20of%20Critical%20Animal%20Studies%20pgs%209-52.pdf, ldg)
Postmodern critiques have ... healing and balance.