Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Zoonosis, Eating Animals, Xenotransplantation
27 Apr 2016
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Considering animals as consumable products & health test subjects. In urban north america, our primary relationship with animals is as food or - to a lesser extent - as pets. Eating meat can be something we just do" without thinking. Used to be 1% of people vegetarians, now 10-15% Relationship to animals: pets, or food how animals live in na, think about how much animal product is consumed even in ucc. Often the thing that gets questioned the least is what we do the most. You can"t say because it"s yummy we eat it because its tradition, it"s the custom of our country. We do it without thinking about it. If you do it on principal, it"s an ethical stance. Vegetarian movement (peter singer 1975), lappe wrote about vegetarianism. First published in 1971, it popularized health and ecologically-based vegetarianism in north america.
