Why no one says "Pigs are so cute, how can I eat pigs?"｜ Daily cans

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Human beings often have dual standards, especially in the relationship between humans and non -human animals.

Cats, puppies, and rabbits are usually considered cute. They are regarded as partners and are called cats, dogs, and dogs, chickens, ducks and other farm animals. Passengers on the table.

Luke McGuire, University of Eksete University in the UK and its team published in "Social Psychology and Personality Science", compared children (9-11 years old), young people (18-21 years old), and adults (29-59 A total of 479 discrimination in the following four aspects, exposing the development process of this dual standard with age.

Animal classification (the possibility of classification of farm animals as food rather than pets)

Specificism (measured by standardized speciesism, that is, how large people are considered high, and other animals should serve human beings)

Animal treatment (evaluate whether farm animals should be treated different from pet animals)

Food assessment (whether it is morally allowed to eat animal and animal products)

The results show that with age, participants are more likely to classify farm animals as food rather than pets; compared with adults, children show lower speciesism; children do not think pigs should think pigs should be pigs like adults. Getting different treatments from humans or dogs; older participants believe that eating animals and animal products is more likely to accept morally.

△ Black dots represent the average level of speciesism in different ages

In other words, when we were young, we were more likely to treat piglets and rabbits. They thought that they were all cute and could be used as our pets and good friends. When we grew up, we were more likely to eat meat -eating machine without emotion. The direction has developed.

references

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McGuire, L., Palmer, S. B., Faber, N. S. (2022). The Development of Speciesism: Age-Related Differences in the Moral View of Animals. Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221086182

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