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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1119" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/face-it-a-farmed-animal-is-someone-not-something" target="_blank"><strong>Eating someone - aeon</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Farmed animals have personalities, smarts, even a sense of agency. Why then do we saddle them with lives of utter despair? </strong></p><p></p><p>e’ve all heard them and used them – the common references to farmed animals that appeal to the worst part of human nature: ‘pearls before swine’, ‘what a pig’, ‘like lambs to the slaughter’, ‘bird brain’. These phrases represent our species’ view of farmed animals as not particularly bright, uncaring about their treatment or fate, and generally bland and monolithic in their identities. My team of researchers asked: ‘What is there to really know about them?’ Our answer: plenty. </p><p></p><p>I’ve had the privilege of being the lead scientist for the Someone Project, a joint venture of two US nonprofit organisations, the Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy, and Farm Sanctuary. The Someone Project is an exploration of our scientific knowledge of the minds of farmed animals. My co-authors and I have explored the peer-reviewed literature on intelligence, personality, emotions and social complexity in <a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sx4s79c" target="_blank">pigs</a>, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-016-1064-4" target="_blank">chickens</a>, <a href="http://animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id=1110" target="_blank">cows</a> and <a href="https://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol4/iss25/1/" target="_blank">sheep</a>, and the journey ‘inward’ into the minds of these animals has been nothing short of revelatory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1119, member: 1"] [URL='https://aeon.co/essays/face-it-a-farmed-animal-is-someone-not-something'][B]Eating someone - aeon[/B][/URL] [B]Farmed animals have personalities, smarts, even a sense of agency. Why then do we saddle them with lives of utter despair? [/B] e’ve all heard them and used them – the common references to farmed animals that appeal to the worst part of human nature: ‘pearls before swine’, ‘what a pig’, ‘like lambs to the slaughter’, ‘bird brain’. These phrases represent our species’ view of farmed animals as not particularly bright, uncaring about their treatment or fate, and generally bland and monolithic in their identities. My team of researchers asked: ‘What is there to really know about them?’ Our answer: plenty. I’ve had the privilege of being the lead scientist for the Someone Project, a joint venture of two US nonprofit organisations, the Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy, and Farm Sanctuary. The Someone Project is an exploration of our scientific knowledge of the minds of farmed animals. My co-authors and I have explored the peer-reviewed literature on intelligence, personality, emotions and social complexity in [URL='https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sx4s79c']pigs[/URL], [URL='https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-016-1064-4']chickens[/URL], [URL='http://animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id=1110']cows[/URL] and [URL='https://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol4/iss25/1/']sheep[/URL], and the journey ‘inward’ into the minds of these animals has been nothing short of revelatory. [/QUOTE]
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