10.14.2020

MODULE VI: EATING ANIMALS

10.14 Issues about Taste and Culture

  1. Would a vegan diet reduce food enjoyment? By how much?
  2. Does food enjoyment outweigh concern for animals?
  3. Do cultural considerations outweigh concern for animals? (Wittmeyer)

 The Coronavirus, Wet Markets, and Animal Cruelty

  1. Benatar, Our Cruel Treatment of Animals Led to the Coronavirus – clearly on the side of concern for animals, not preserving cultural practices
  2. Peter Singer  Two Dark Sides of Covid-19
  3. More reporting on the coronavirus, bats, and wet markets
  4. Video with a variety of views and scenes of a wetmarket (Inkstone)