Animals and the Coronavirus Pandemic (Part One): Poaching, Farming, and Eating Wild Animals
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
What does the Covid-19 / coronavirus virus mean for non-human animals and the laws and policies that affect our treatment of them? Join me for the first episode in the series, which focuses on wild animals who are poached, farmed, and eaten.
The source of the recent coronavirus outbreak that has led to a worldwide pandemic has been linked to a market in mainland China, where wild animals are sold and killed for human consumption. Will this virus put an end to the illegal wildlife trade in China and Southeast Asia? Will the wildlife farms in China reopen once the pandemic is over? Will this be the end to live animal markets and wet markets where wild and domesticated animals are sold and killed for meat? Will China close the loopholes (such as exemptions for Traditional Chinese Medicine) that exist in their bans on wildlife poaching and consumption? Is there anything you can do to help make a difference?
Listen to this listener-supported episode as I attempt to answer these questions. (become a supporter at patreon.com/colleenpatrickgoudreau)
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. Today's episode is Animals and the |
| 0:19.6 | Coronavirus Pandemic Part 1. Wild Animal Consumption, Poaching, and Wet Markets. |
| 0:27.0 | Before we begin, my name is Colleen Patrick Gedro. |
| 0:29.7 | You can find me at joyful vegan.com or Colleen Patrick Gedro.com, you can find me at Joyful vegan.com or Colleen Patrick Goodreau. |
| 0:33.2 | You can find me on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. |
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| 1:03.9 | Colleen Patrick Godro.com. Thank you so much in advance. |
| 1:08.5 | Just a couple of quick announcements. I have made the decision to not continue having Animology Podcast content |
| 1:16.5 | Be a separate podcast, but rather return to incorporating the content related to |
| 1:21.8 | animal-related words and expressions into the Food for Thought |
| 1:25.3 | podcast. It's not sustainable for me to try and produce to podcast it turns out and |
| 1:31.0 | so from this point onward you will still be able to listen to |
| 1:34.7 | Animology episodes as part of a series in Food for Thought. They'll be |
| 1:39.4 | interspersed with Food for Thought episodes. They will be food they will basically be part of Food for Thought as it used to be, rather than hearing the episodes related to animal words and expressions in a separate podcast. |
| 1:54.3 | I think it's better for you, it's better for me, |
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