BONUS — Pets, pests and farm animals, why do we value them differently?
Short & Curly
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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Short & Curly listeners Harry, Max and Hugo live on farm surrounded by all kinds of animals: pets, livestock, and also pests like feral pigs. Some animals they love, some animals they hate, and some are just another member of the herd. Why do we value some animals differently from others? Come with us as we get a tour of their farm. And a warning, this episode deals with the death of animals.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | All right, just got to finish polishing the microphones and vacuum the carpet. |
| 0:12.0 | And that's it. the studio is all clean after another fantastic season of short and curly thanks studio I love you |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, what's this? A letter just slid under the door. Hey, it's from |
| 0:27.2 | Carl! Okay, let me read this in my best car voice. |
| 0:31.1 | Dear Molly! I know car voice. The Fourth International Dog and Cat Naming Festival. |
| 0:45.0 | But Molly, I wanted to write this letter to you because we got an email from one of our short and curly listeners called Harry who lives on a farm in the |
| 0:56.0 | New South Wales country town of Warrealda. |
| 0:59.0 | Wow that's so cool. |
| 1:01.5 | And Harry's message got me a thinking about farm animals. |
| 1:06.2 | Some have fur, some have wings, some have scales. |
| 1:10.2 | But on a farm, all animals are valued differently. |
| 1:14.9 | So Molly, I hope you haven't already polished the microphones and put them away because |
| 1:20.4 | we have one more show to make. |
| 1:24.0 | Oh well, I'll polish them again. |
| 1:26.0 | It's my favorite thing to do. |
| 1:28.0 | So let's put our headphones on |
| 1:30.0 | and make sure our batteries are charged to maximum. |
| 1:34.0 | Oh Carl, do you ever stop working? |
| 1:36.0 | Molly, I know you already have your tickets for the cat and dog naming festival. |
| 1:41.0 | So this time, our producer Kila has agreed to go with me to |
| 1:46.0 | Warrealda and do the recording. Oh boy. |
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