Why Are Some Animals Pets And Others Are Lunch?
But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids
Vermont Public
4.3 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This episode may not be suitable for our youngest listeners or for particularly sensitive kids.
We're discussing animal ethics with author Hal Herzog. In a follow up to our pets episodes, we look at how we treat animals very differently depending on whether we think of them as pets, food, or work animals. Why do some cultures eat cows and others don't? Why do some cultures not have pets at all? And is it okay to breed animals like dogs that have significant health problems even though we love them? Herzog is the author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals.
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| 0:27.2 | Now on to the episode. |
| 0:28.2 | Music This is But Why, A Podcast for Curious Kids from Vermont Public Radio. |
| 0:56.4 | I'm Jane Linton. |
| 0:57.7 | On this show, we take your questions and find interesting people to answer them. |
| 1:02.6 | This episode, though, is a little bit different. |
| 1:05.2 | We are tackling some questions without answers. |
| 1:08.6 | This episode is a follow-up to our cats and dogs episodes. So if you haven't |
| 1:13.6 | listened to those yet, you might want to go back and listen to them before you listen to this one. |
| 1:18.2 | In those two episodes, we answered all kinds of questions about our feline and canine companions. |
| 1:24.7 | But that got us thinking, why do we have pets in the first place? Why are some |
| 1:30.6 | animals farm animals and some are pets while others are wild? And why do we eat animals? |
| 1:38.0 | We're going to be spending some time thinking about those hard questions, including the ones |
| 1:42.9 | about which animals are okay to eat. |
| 1:45.5 | So adults, you may want to think about whether or not this is an episode that's right for your |
| 1:49.8 | kids or listen to it on your own first before you share it with them. Okay, let's get started. |
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