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Traveling with peace of mind with your pet: a promise from the SNCF in 1980

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NEWS. On January 2, 2023, at Paris-Montparnasse station, a woman and her daughter witnessed the death of their cat, which had escaped from its carrier to hide under a TGV. The case was revealed by The Parisian 20 th January. According to our colleague, the tragedy took place despite twenty minutes of negotiations to recover the animal. By refusing the SNCF to delay the departure of the train, the cat Neko was crushed to death in front of the eyes of his mistresses. “ We saw him, running under the train, that’s the last time I saw him alive, he looked me in the eyes, because he must have heard me, he kept running then it was over “He told one of the owners of BFMTV. The 30 million friends foundation filed a complaint on January 23 against the SNCF for “serious abuses and acts of cruelty resulting in the death of an animal”. ” Beyond the abominable cruelty of the facts, the animal was in good standing because his mistresses had paid for a ticket ...
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Bee vaccine: when biopolitics affects animals

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It’s a first: a vaccine for honey bees has been licensed in the United States. The goal: to protect insects from bacteria Paenibacillus larvae which decimates the beehives, and consequently the beekeeping industry. vortex perhaps he would see in it an extension of the field of biopolitics. Excuse me vaccines for bees on the other side of the Atlantic, “biopolitics”, a concept developed by Michael Foucault , extends not only to humans, but also to animals? To answer the question, we have to go back to the meaning of this notion in a nutshell. From biological laws to biopolitics At the beginning of his course at the Collège de France on March 17, 1976, Foucault defines biopolitics as “taking into account the life and biological processes of the human species” for power. More precisely, the philosopher identifies an inflection, around the XVIII And century, starting from which life was no longer considered only as a given, but as a political issue. To the...
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